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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."
"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."
"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
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"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."
"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."
"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
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