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“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 hear...”
“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
“Lord help my poor soul.”
“Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseTheyd have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.”
“And since todays all there is for now, thats everything.Who knows if Ill be dead the day after tomorrow?If Im dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrowWill be another thunder...”
“The truth is .. I'm okay with people not liking me. I'm not okay with them pretending that they do. Keep it real. Everybody ain't for everybody.”
“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.”
“Live, you say, in the present;Live only in the present.But I dont want the present, I want reality;I want things that exist, not time that measures them.What is the present?Its something relative t...”
“Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but in people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Grievefor the withering branch, the dying star,and the hurt animal, but feel f...”
“Most animals are like people-and like good people”
“He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!Hes stupid if he doesnt know other peoples unhappiness is theirs,And isnt cured from the outside,Because suffering isnt like ...”
“There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment.No wind whatsoever brought you now.Now youre here.What you were isnt you, or else the...”
“What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.”
“To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.”
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie...”
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death...”
“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!”
“And starward drifts the stricken world,Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb,Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.(The Testimony of the Suns)”
“Everythings different from us. Thats why everything exists.”
“If science wants to be truthful,What science is more truthful than the science of things without science?I close my eyes and the hard earth where Im lyingHas a reality so real even my back feels it...”
