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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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