Invisible things are the only realities.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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