Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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