The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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