Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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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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