In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEImperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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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