The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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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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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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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