Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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