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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Deep in earth my love is lying
    And I must weep alone.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: bereavement, crying, sorrow
    1563 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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
    1327 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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
    1200 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: inspiration
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, imperfections
    3898 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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
    3754 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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
    3085 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: adversity, contrast
    2135 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    2010 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: irreligion, organized-religion, religion
    1997 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Invisible things are the only realities.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath
    tags: humor, satire
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: poetry
    774 likes

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

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



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