The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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