The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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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 short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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