To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEven in the grave, all is not lost.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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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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