A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWe loved with a love that was more than love.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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