All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe 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 believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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