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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who gossip with you will gossip about you.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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