Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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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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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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