I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI 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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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