The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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