There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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