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

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"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

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

Creativity

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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