Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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 scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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