It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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