A wise man hears one word and understands two.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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