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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

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The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

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You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

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Leave my loneliness unbroken

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I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!

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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

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I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

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It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

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I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

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