Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
EDGAR ALLAN POEDeep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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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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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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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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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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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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