I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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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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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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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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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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