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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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