Lord, help my poor soul.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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