Edgar Allan Poe on intelligence
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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