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Edgar Allen Poe
  • "A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms."

  • "A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."

  • " All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

  • "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

  • "I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."


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Hecate's_Caitlin A Few You Missed - Edgar Allan Poe 0 Sep 14 2009, 4:47 PM EDT by Hecate's_Caitlin
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-“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.”
-“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”
-“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry”
-“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
-“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
-“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
-“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
-Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
-Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
-I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
-I have no faith in human perfectability. 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.
-“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
-“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
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