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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEven with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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