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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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