Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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