The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POEArt is to look at not to criticize.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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