All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POEYet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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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