Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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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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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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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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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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