Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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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 nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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