A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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