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?
EDGAR ALLAN POEMan’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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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 intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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That 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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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