A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who gossip with you will gossip about you.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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