Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
EDGAR ALLAN POESleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Now 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.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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