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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

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Edgar Allan Poe

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Certain, Fiction, Interest, Purpose, Themes

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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?

Begins, Death, Inspirational, Life, Shadowy

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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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.

Art, Deep, Doubting, Dream, Love, Mortal

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

Aspect, Eye, Humanity, Reason, Sad, World

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I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

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I am not gone but merely walk within you.

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My policy is not how fast you play, it's not how much you play but it's what you play and where you play it. . . play for the commercial side of the music. . . the word I still use today is called "simplicity". . it is so important that you use simplicity in your playing and in your music.

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