The benefit morality gives us is economy of time and effort. The damage it does is the complete paralysis of conscience.

Life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire.

I suffer from a certain vague unease.

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

-- Edgar Allan Poe

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

-- Edgar Allan Poe

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

-- Edgar Allan Poe

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

-- Ernest Hemingway

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

-- Oscar Wilde

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas