"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
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"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."
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"The customs of the world are so many conventional follies."
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"The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception."
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"I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager."
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"Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety."
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"But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed."
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"The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain."
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"Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing."
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"From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down."
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"By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears."
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"[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science."
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"Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all."
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"There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies."
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"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
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"To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair"
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"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
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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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"The true genius shudders at incompleteness."
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"If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?"
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