If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMen have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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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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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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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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