We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
EDGAR ALLAN POEHappiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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 a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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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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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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