I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POELeave my loneliness unbroken.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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