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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fa...more

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You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to sense and seek for me within the repellent form ...more

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Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives...more

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If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set first to his clothing one night.

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Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and o...more

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No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of ide

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That is not dead which can eternal lie,And with strange aeons even death may die.

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If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!