Quotes

There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.

The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

The question has not been settled whether madness is a higher form of intelligence.

I became insane, with terrible stretches of sanity.

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.

Years of love have been forgot in the hatred of a minute.

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

There is no Beauty without Strangeness.