The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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