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#1

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#2

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#3

“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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#4

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

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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

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

tags: beauty, imperfections

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#7

“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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#8

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

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

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#9

“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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#10

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

tags: death, sleep

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#11

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

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#12

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: adversity, contrast

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#13

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

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#14

“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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#15

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: forget, memory, mnemonic-help

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#16

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

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#17

“Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: bereavement, crying, sorrow

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#18

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

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#19

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

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#20

“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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#21

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

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