There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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