Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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