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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Mathematics Poet Reason
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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Content Dreams Hope Man World
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Eyes Imagination Mirror Multiply Shatter Sorrow
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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Dare Darkness Doubt Dreams Fear Mortal Wonder
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.
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Anguish Bliss Memories Past
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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General Nature Particular Rich Truth
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Intelligence Madness Science Teaching
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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Beautiful Contemplation Division Elevate Intense Pleasure
We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Color Dwell Grass Love Sun Togetherness Valley
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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Demon Fight Frame Insane Instant Myself Original Posses Soul Violence
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Death Grave Hope Lost One Liner
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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Intelligence Mad Madness Men Question Settlement
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Active Appreciation Effect Faith Happiness Human Hurt Man Perfection Wise
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Poetry Writing
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Book Indeed Luxury One Liner
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Believe Doubt Happiness Wise

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