I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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