As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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