A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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