Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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