A wise man hears one word and understands two.
EDGAR ALLAN POESleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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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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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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