The past is a pebble in my shoe.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEither 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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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