Invisible things are the only realities.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Experience 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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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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