"The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms."
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"Leave my loneliness unbroken"
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"And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!"
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"The best things in life make you sweaty."
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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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"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."
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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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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"We loved with a love that was more than love."
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"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."
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"The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow"
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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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"It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood."
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"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."
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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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"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
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"I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things."
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"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."
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"If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there"
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