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 POEThe past is a pebble in my shoe.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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