The past is a pebble in my shoe.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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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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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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