When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POELet my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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 world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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