Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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