And I fell violently on my face.
EDGAR ALLAN POEStupidity is a talent for misconception.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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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