Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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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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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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