All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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?
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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