A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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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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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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