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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEConvinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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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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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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It 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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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