The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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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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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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