As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POESleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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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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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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