I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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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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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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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