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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
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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."
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
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