A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POENow this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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