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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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If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

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

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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.

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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.

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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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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

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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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That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

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There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

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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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I fell in love with melancholy

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

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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

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If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

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We loved with a love that was more than love.

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