I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat 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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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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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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