Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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