The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POEScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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