In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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All that we see or 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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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 have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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