I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who gossip with you will gossip about you.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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