Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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