Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
EDGAR ALLAN POEExperience 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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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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