Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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