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We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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Darkness Dreams Existence Fancy Future Irritation Present Thinking
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Absolute Dangerous Exception Horror Indeed
We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Color Dwell Grass Love Sun Togetherness Valley
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Mathematics Poet Reason
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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Dare Darkness Doubt Dreams Fear Mortal Wonder
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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Bad Eternal Gone Goodness Rest Worst
From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Alone Awake Childhood Heart Joy Love
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Depression Horrible Insane Interval
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Appearance High Indeed Jacket Madness Straight Time
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Permit Personal Private Secret
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Effort Fall Nature Soar
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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Genius Imperfection Incomplete Silence True
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Door Heart
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Hear Man Understand Wise
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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Demon Fight Frame Insane Instant Myself Original Posses Soul Violence
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Calm Encounter Ocean Storm World

We loved with a love that was more than love.

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