I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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