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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Invisible things are the only realities.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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 a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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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