Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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