All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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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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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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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