I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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