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.
EDGAR ALLAN POELet my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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