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" Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. "

Edgar Allan Poe

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" Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' "

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" Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. "

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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 no faith in human perfectability. 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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" 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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" To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. "

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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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" It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. "

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" I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. "

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" A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. "

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" Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. "

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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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" They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. "

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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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