It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

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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."

- Edgar Allan Poe

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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

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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"Results on. Excuses off."

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"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

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