Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEStupidity is a talent for misconception.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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 a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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