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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

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“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: happiness, human-nature, humanity, perfection, time

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“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

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“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity

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