With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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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