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 POEHappiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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