Edgar Allan Poe

"Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed."

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"Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed."

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."

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"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."

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"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

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"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."

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"“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”"

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"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

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"“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”"

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"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

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"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."

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"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it."

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"I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?"

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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

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"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...)"

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"A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity."

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"In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."

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"You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. "

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"Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces"