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 POELord, help my poor soul.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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