It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
EDGAR ALLAN POENever to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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