As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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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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