The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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That 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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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