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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Midnight, Literature, Weak

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Night, Talking, Your Side

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• The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eye, Mirrors, Sorrow

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Thoughtful, Suffering

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1322, Library of America

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

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• To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Laughing, Glorious, Dies

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.37, Bottletree Books LLC

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• To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Greatness, Men

  1849 Marginalia1844-49.

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• And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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• Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Thoughtful, Reality

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  That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Intense

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.78, Library of America

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Insane, Mental Health

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, p.118, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Running, Persistence, Ideas

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• 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

  Funny, Pain, Memories

  Edgar Allan Poe, Simon Marsden (1988). “Visions of Poe: a personal selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems”, Michael Joseph

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• Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heartbreak, I Hate You, Want

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• Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Should, Reader, Dies

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• There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Secret, Permit

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.249, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ocean, Storm, Encounters

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• And all I loved, I loved alone.

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  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Poems”, p.172, Bottletree Books LLC

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• Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Reality, Insanity, Causes

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• Invisible things are the only realities.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Halloween, Reality, Invisible

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer, Maureen Cobb Mabbott (2000). “Tales and Sketches: 1831-1842”, p.64, University of Illinois Press

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• 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

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• Even in the grave, all is not lost.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Slumber, Lost, Pendulums

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Pit and the Pendulum”, p.4, Booklassic

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• Art is to look at not to criticize.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Looks, Criticize

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• I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Friendship, Confidence

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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• The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Perfect, Plot, Universe

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.3066, ShandonPress

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