Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMan’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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