Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd I fell violently on my face.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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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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