Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the 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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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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 pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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