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.
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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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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 a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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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 remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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