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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Intelligence Madness Science Teaching
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Cat Imagination Mystery One Liner
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Exquisite Horror Impress Power Reality Words
Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Death Sleep Slice
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Build Mood Sentence Story Writing
From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Alone Awake Childhood Heart Joy Love
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.
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Active Appreciation Effect Faith Happiness Human Hurt Man Perfection Wise
The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Mountain Seek She Valley
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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Mathematics Poet Reason
A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Candle Reading
If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Experience Poem Poetry Soul
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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Afraid Brave Coward Man True
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Genius Incomplete Silence True
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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One Liner Past Shoes
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Fall In Love Melancholy Young
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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Bad Eternal Gone Goodness Rest Worst

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

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