When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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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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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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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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