To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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