The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
EDGAR ALLAN POEStupidity is a talent for misconception.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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 death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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