Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEInvisible things are the only realities.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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