Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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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