The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd I fell violently on my face.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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 scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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