A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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