Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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The 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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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