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#1

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: heartache, loss, love

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#2

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

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#3

“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

tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain

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#4

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

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#5

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

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#6

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

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#7

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: death, sleep

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#8

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

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#9

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: irreligion, organized-religion, religion

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#10

“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, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity

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#11

“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#12

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: age, dark, dreaming, dreams, future, inspirational, past, time

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#13

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#14

“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.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: happiness, human-nature, humanity, perfection, time

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#15

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

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#16

“Invisible things are the only realities.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath

tags: humor, satire

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#17

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: genius, imperfection, incompleteness, shudder, silence

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#18

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

tags: the-raven

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#19

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, death, poetry, women

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#20

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#21

“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
― Edgar Allen Poe

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#22

“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#23

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle

tags: beauty, poetry, rhythm

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#24

“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

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#25

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: poetry

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#26

“That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#27

“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."

[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

tags: bad-books, good-books, great-writing, reading

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#28

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

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