I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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