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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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