All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POENow 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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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 nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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