Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards 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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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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?
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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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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