Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Either 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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