Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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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 boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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 am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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 felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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