The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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