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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEYet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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