That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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