A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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 would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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 death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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