A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEither the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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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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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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