Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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.
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