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Éléonora (Eleonora) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published for the first time in September 1841. Translated into French by Charles Baudelaire, it is part of the collection Histoires grotesques et Seriouses.

Extract: Sub conservatione formoe specificoe salva anima.
Raymond Lulle
I COME FROM a race characterized by a vigorous imagination and ardent passions.
Men called me crazy; but science has not yet taught us whether madness is or is not the sublime of intelligence, whether almost all that is glory, whether all that is depth, does not come from a disease of thought, of a mode of the mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
Those who dream while awake know a thousand things that escape those who only dream while asleep.
In their foggy visions, they catch glimpses of eternity and shudder, when they wake up, to see that they have been for a moment on the edge of the great secret.
They grasp in fragments something of the knowledge of Good, and even more of the science of Evil...
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