The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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