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A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him ...more

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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful...more

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There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

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Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis.The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 thing...more

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

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I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.

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I 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 of...more

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Every moment of the nightForever changing placesAnd they put out the star-lightWith the breath from their pale faces

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And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futili...more

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

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How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a conseque...more

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whe...more

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In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fa...more

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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...more

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I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.