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“...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Beautiful #Perfection #Melancholy
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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Inspirational #Life #Clever
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“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Writing #Insightful #Stories
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“It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Rain #Fall #Night
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“And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Mistake #Heart #Men
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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– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Depression #Spring #Science
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“Leave my loneliness unbroken”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Loneliness #Unbroken
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“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 Poe
#Soul #Body #Flight
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“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Truth #Halloween #Believe
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“Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Should #Sheets #Guinea
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“...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Agony #Long #Soul
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“In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Dream #Men #Profound
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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.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Love #Heart #Sacrifice
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“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Heart #Insane #Mental Health
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“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Sweet #Musical #Fancy
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“There is no beauty without some strangeness”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
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“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Soul #Monsters
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“I fell in love with melancholy”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Melancholy
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“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Love #Inspirational #Life
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“Me volvà loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Horrible
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“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Life #Happiness #Real
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“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Weakness #Atrocities #Causes
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“In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Reality #Air #Narrative
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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.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Revenge #Ambition #Men
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“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Rap #Doors #Midnight
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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Inspirational #Life #Dream
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“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Heartbreak #I Hate You #Way
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“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Inspirational #Life #Death
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“In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Criticism #Purpose #Literature
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“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
-- Edgar Allan Poe
#Funny #Pain #Memories
