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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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 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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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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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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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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