When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POEStupidity is a talent for misconception.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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