All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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 have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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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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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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