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?
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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