That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POEArt is to look at not to criticize.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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