All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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