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" It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. "
Edgar Allan Poe
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" Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. "
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" I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. "
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" We loved with a love that was more than love. "
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" They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. "
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Night
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" In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. "
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" Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. "
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" I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. "
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Self-Confidence
" That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. "
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Pleasure
Pure
" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "
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Me
" 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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Death
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Tears
Soul
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" All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. "
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Out
Poetry
" 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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Friend
Purpose
Bold
" The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. "
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Saying
Genius
True
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Test
Him
" The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. "
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Possibly
Found
Verse
" A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. "
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Strong
Men
" Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. "
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Who
Said
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Afraid
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Poor
Lord
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Beautiful Woman
Death
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Dreams
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Horror
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Truth
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See
Seem
" The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. "
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Nose
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