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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWe loved with a love that was more than love.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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