Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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