As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe 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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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