A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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