Art is to look at not to criticize.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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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 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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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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