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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

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I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.

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

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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.

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Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie....

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Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

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Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

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The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure ...: buffoons,... improvisatori,... ballet-dancers,... musicians,... Beauty,... wine. A...

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

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the wind came out of the cloud chilling And killing my Annabel Lee.

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

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Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

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Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer t...

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My love—my faith—should instil into your bosom a praeternatural calm. You would rest from care.... You would get better.... And if not, He...

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You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou ... dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist—and, in my ...

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Some sepulcher, remote, alone, Against whose portal she hath thrown,...

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The lady sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, Which is enduring, so be deep! Heaven have her in its sacred keep!

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