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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

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No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

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And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

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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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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

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If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

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In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

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Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!

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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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

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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 their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!

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True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

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The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

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-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

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Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

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Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

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