Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
Edgar Allan Poe
Quotes to Explore
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Fernand Leger
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
Rabih Alameddine
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Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I usually eat a salad for lunch and before a game since it keeps me feeling healthy and energized on the field. I love piling on the toppings: the more colorful the better! I usually do nuts, fruit and avocado, but I also mix up my creations with different toppings and lettuces.
Carli Lloyd
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All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.
Lou Holtz
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We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.
C. S. Lewis
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I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.
Jeff Long
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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
Ernest Hemingway
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
Socrates
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Francis Bacon
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This was a very intense game. I thought both teams played their hearts out. In a very charged atmosphere, I thought both teams played well at times and not so well at times.
J. M. Roberts
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My goal every day is just to get better at something.
Eric Reid
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Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
William Shakespeare
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All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.
Victor Hugo
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
This miserable mode
Maintain the melancholy souls of those
Who lived withouten infamy or praise.
Dante Alighieri
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I like Nasser. He’s creepy, but he seems sensible. For a vampire.
Carrie Vaughn
