Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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