I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEven in the grave, all is not lost.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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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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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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