The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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