In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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