From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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