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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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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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