I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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