A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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