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Edgar Allan Poe

"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."

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"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."

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"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

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"An evil life is a kind of death."

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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

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"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

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"It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple."

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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

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"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."

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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

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"Be nothing which thou art not."
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"In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it."
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"I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane."
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"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife."
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"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."
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"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."
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"Even in the grave, all is not lost."
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"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"
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"And thus when by Poetry, or when by Music, the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we find ourselves melted into tears, we weep then, not... through excess of pleasure, but through a certain petulant, impatient sorrow at our inability to grasp now, wholly, here on earth, at once and forever, those divine and raptorous joys of which through the poem, or through the music, we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses."
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