A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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