In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below 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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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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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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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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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