That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhen a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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