To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book – to become absorbed for the better part of a summer's day in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry, or upon the floor – to lose myself for an entire night in watching the steady flame of a lamp, or the embers of a fire – to dream away whole days over the perfume of a flower – to repeat monotonously some common word, until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind – to lose all sense of motion or physical existence in a state of absolute bodily quiescence long and obstinately persevered in – Such were a few of the most common and least pernicious vagaries induced by a condition of the mental faculties, not, indeed, altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance to any thing like analysis or explanation. Edgar Allan Poe
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
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Margaret Atwood
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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Elie Wiesel
The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
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Rick Riordan
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
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J.k. Rowling
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
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More Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love.
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE;And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me....
