The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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 am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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