I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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