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"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."
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"True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute."
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"To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"
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"And I fell violently on my face."
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"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."

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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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"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."
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"It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream."
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"Even in the grave, all is not lost."
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"Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."
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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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"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion."
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"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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"I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down." [Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]"
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"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."
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"Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded..."
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"That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses."
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"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
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"I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results."
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"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind"
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"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."
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"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
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"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."
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"And all I loved, I loved alone."
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"The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said."
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"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
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"Invisible things are the only realities."
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy."
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"I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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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"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."
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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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"Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone."
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"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
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"The best things in life make you sweaty."
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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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"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
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"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
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"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."
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"Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute."
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"Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them."
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"From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."
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"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."
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"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."
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"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
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"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it."
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
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