All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe past is a pebble in my shoe.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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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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