All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
EDGAR ALLAN POELeave my loneliness unbroken.
EDGAR ALLAN POENow 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
EDGAR ALLAN POEInvisible things are the only realities.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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