Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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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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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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