Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAs a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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