Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEven for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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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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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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