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 POEEven in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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