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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Beauty Development Kind Sensitive Soul Supreme Tears Variable
Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Death Equality Life Respect
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Die Floor Ghost Remember Separate
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Eyes Imagination Mirror Multiply Shatter Sorrow
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Book Indeed Luxury One Liner
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Exquisite Horror Impress Power Reality Words
I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Event Future Result
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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Content Dreams Hope Man World
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Cause Disaster Effect Establishment Seek Sequence Weakness
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Depression Horrible Insane Interval
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Afraid Brave Coward Man True
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Book Indeed Luxury One Liner
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Monster Scare Soul
The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Mountain Seek She Valley
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Finding Possiblity Verse
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Except Heart Insane Inspirational Occasion Touch
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Expectation Happiness Life Man
I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Insane Writer
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Believe Doubt Happiness Wise
I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Call Faith Fools Friendship Self Confidence
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Forget Memories Past Remember Spot
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Convince One Liner Seek
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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Darkness Dreams Existence Fancy Future Irritation Present Thinking
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Beginning Boundary Death Division Ending Life Shadow Vague
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Eloquence Enthusiam One Liner True
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Beautiful Contemplation Division Elevate Intense Pleasure
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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Intelligence Mad Madness Men Question Settlement

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