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.
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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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