A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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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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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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