All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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