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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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