All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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