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 POEArt is to look at not to criticize.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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