Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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 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 am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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