Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMen have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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