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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEYears of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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