The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
EDGAR ALLAN POEStupidity is a talent for misconception.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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All that we see and seem is but a dream within 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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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