The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
EDGAR ALLAN POELord, help my poor soul.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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