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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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