I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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 true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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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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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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