"Those who gossip with you will gossip about you."
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"I fell in love with melancholy"
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"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!"
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"Invisible things are the only realities."
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"It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream."
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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 have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it."
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"Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found."
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"Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it"
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"Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed."
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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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"Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts."
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"Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen."
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"[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention."
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"Once upon a midnight dreary"
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"We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams."
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"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage."
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"False hope is nicer than no hope at all."
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"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
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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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