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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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Personal Development
"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
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Personal Development
"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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Personal Development
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
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"I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."
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Personal Development
"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."
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Personal Development
"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
Experience
"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."
Poetry
"True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute."
Mind
"In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it."
Life
"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed."
Mystery
"I have no words - alas! - to tellThe loveliness of loving well!"
Romance
"The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception."
Philosophy
"To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death."
Philosophy
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence" whether much that is glorious" whether all that is profound" does not spring from disease of thought" from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."
Philosophy
"But, for myself, the Earth's records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization."
Philosophy
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