A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEFalse hope is nicer than no hope at all.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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