Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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