The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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?
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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.
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