I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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