And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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