I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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