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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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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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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

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There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

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Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

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The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.

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True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

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I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

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No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.

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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

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