To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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