I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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