The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhen a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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 best things in life make you sweaty.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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