Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhen a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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