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- There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
- For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting…
- If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering…
- In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah!…
- The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But…
- Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess…
- All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
- The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm,…
- 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…
- If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity…
- 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…
- Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air…
- Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out…
- The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate…
- All works of art should begin... at the end.
- If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the…
- I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure…
- False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
- All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
- All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
- No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within…
- ...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the…
- ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the…
- And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the…
- From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy…
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