A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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 religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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