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 POEDeep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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