The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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