Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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