Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
EDGAR ALLAN POEDeep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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