And I fell violently on my face.
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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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