I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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 was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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