Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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 are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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