Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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