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Edgar Allan Poe QUOTES

61 " 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 Stories and Poems

62 " Men have called me mad; but the question is not 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. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream 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. They penetrate, however rudderless or compassless, into the vast ocean of the ‘light ineffable’. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Eleonora

63 " Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. "

― Edgar Allan Poe

64 " In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Berenice

65 " And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Tell-Tale Heart

66 " 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

67 " I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery. "

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68 " You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Gold Bug [+ The Sphinx + William Wilson]

69 " Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Black Cat

70 " It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe. "

― Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe QUOTES

71 " So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity. "

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72 " Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Complete Poetry

73 " How had I deserved to be so blessed by such confessions? —how had I deserved to be so cursed with the removal of my beloved in the hour of her making them, But upon this subject I cannot bear to dilate. "

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74 " The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow. "

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75 " Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, --as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? --from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been. "

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76 " In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Pit and the Pendulum

77 " If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. "

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78 " In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , Ligeia

79 " Horrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mind, and shake the innermost depths of my soul with the bare supposition of their possibility. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall

80 " From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring
My passions from a common spring - "

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