Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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