Nothing is more clear than that every plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before any thing be attempted with the pen.

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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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"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

Learning

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

Learning

"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."

- Vince Gironda

Learning

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

- Vincent van Gogh

Learning