All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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 have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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 you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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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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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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