We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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 dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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