A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not 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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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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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