I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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