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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe best things in life make you sweaty.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to 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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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