In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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