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#1

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

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#2

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

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#3

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

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#4

“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: poetry

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#5

“And I fell violently on my face.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Great Tales and Poems

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#6

“When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: tarr-and-fether

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#7

“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

tags: love, poetry

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#8

“That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter

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#9

“If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#10

“The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: grief

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#11

“When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: edgar-allan-poe, melancholy

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#12

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Collected Poems

tags: love-poems

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#13

“Read this and thought of you:
Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote.
Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote.
Through good report and through ill report, I wrote.
Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote.
What I wrote it is unnecessary to say.
~ Edgar Allen Poe”
― Poe

tags: writing-through-the-rough-times

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#14

“Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis.
The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand.
(it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: conscience, endormi, french, poe, rêve

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#15

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#16

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: beauty

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#17

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#18

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: self-realization

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#19

“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

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#20

“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: loneliness

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#21

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: fool, fyodor-dostoevsky, heart

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#22

“Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: dare, power

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#23

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

tags: death, sleep

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#24

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#25

“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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#26

“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: death, hopelessness

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#27