All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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