I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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