Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
EDGAR ALLAN POENever to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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 rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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