A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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