I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEither 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.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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