I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA wise man hears one word and understands two.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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