Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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