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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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