It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night."

- Edgar Allan Poe

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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

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"We loved a love that was more than love."

- Edgar Allan Poe

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"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

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- Paine

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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- G.K. Chesterton

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