Lord, help my poor soul.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat 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.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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