There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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