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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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 best things in life make you sweaty.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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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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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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