Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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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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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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