It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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 have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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