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?
EDGAR ALLAN POEI became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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