As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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 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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