Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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