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It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

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I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

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

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The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

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Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.

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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

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

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...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.

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

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

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If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

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

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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

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As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

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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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