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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEConvinced myself, I seek not to convince.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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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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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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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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