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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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