False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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