The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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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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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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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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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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