To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat 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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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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