The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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