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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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