That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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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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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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