If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe best things in life make you sweaty.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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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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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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