I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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