I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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