In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POESleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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