A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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 loved with a love that was more than love.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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