When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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