There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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 boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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