The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Lord, help my poor soul.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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