I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe 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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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 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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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