Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POELet my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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