I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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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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