The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe 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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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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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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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