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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. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tales and Poems
    tags: dream, eternity, mind, mystery, wisdom
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “But our love was stronger by far than the love
    Of those who were older than we
    Of many far wiser than we
    And neither the angels in heaven above,
    Nor the demons down under the sea,
    Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
    Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
    tags: virginia-earlydeath
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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.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: edgar-allan-poe, intelligence, madness
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Fill with mingled cream and amber,
    I will drain that glass again.
    Such hilarious visions clamber
    Through the chamber of my brain —
    Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
    Come to life and fade away;
    What care I how time advances?
    I am drinking ale today.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: alcohol, drinking
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: content, dreams
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
    tags: irrelevance, life, philosophy, relevance, truth
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of Edgar Allen Poe Volume 4
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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
    “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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    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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    Poe
    “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”
    ― Poe
    tags: lyrics, misattributed-edgar-allan-poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: death, sleep
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: adversity, contrast
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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
    “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
    “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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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
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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
    “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
    “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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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
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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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    Francis Bacon
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: misattributed-edgar-allan-poe
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    Poe
    “The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
    ― Poe
    tags: lyrics, misattributed-edgar-allan-poe, poe-singer
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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