The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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