The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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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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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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