Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
EDGAR ALLAN POEFrom 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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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