Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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