“There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.”
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Imagination
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Well-being
"We loved a love that was more than love."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Love
"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."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Adversity
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
- Edgar Allan Poe
Love
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
Originality
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
Originality
"Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out."
- Anita Roddick
Originality
"If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."
- Therese of Lisieux
Originality
"There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original."
- Franz Joseph Haydn
Originality