A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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