The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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The 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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