That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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