All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAs a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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