Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.
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And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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'Villains!' I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! – tear up the planks! – here, here! – it is the beating of his hideous heart!'
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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'Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore -Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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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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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.