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?
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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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