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 POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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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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