The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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