Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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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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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.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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