The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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