The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
EDGAR ALLAN POESleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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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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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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