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.
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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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