I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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