I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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The 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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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 dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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