Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd all I loved, I loved alone.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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