Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
EDGAR ALLAN POEExperience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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And I fell violently on my face.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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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