Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe past is a pebble in my shoe.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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