I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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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 became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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