I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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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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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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