All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt 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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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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