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• The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Communication, Thoughtful, Silence

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• You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Night, Vision

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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• It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Night, Ideas, Brain

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.217, Hackett Publishing

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• And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Doors, Darkness, Heard

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

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• Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Able, Said, Punning

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stories, Seekers

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories”, p.225, First Avenue Editions

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• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sarcasm, Misunderstood, Want

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1206, Ageless Reads

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• Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Animal, Thoughtful, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.122, Bottletree Books LLC

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• The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Real, War, Class

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• And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Lying, Eye

  "The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

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• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Taught Us, Intelligence

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• Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Poetry, Tone, Melancholy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.148, Lulu.com

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• You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fire, Agony, Desire

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.70, Lulu.com

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• Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Children, Tough, Beats

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2184, Delphi Classics

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• ...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Agony, Long, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.408, Lulu.com

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• I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Events, Results, Dread

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.302, Xist Publishing

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• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Courage, Thoughtful, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2136, Delphi Classics

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• Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Enthusiasm, Eloquence, Doubted

  Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Wilhelm Hauff (2011). “The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology”, p.17, Bottletree Books LLC

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• Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sad, Lying, Love Is

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.396, University of Illinois Press

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Death, Thoughtful

  1846 'The Philosophy of Composition', in Graham's Magazine, Apr.

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• I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Weakness, Atrocities, Causes

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• This maiden she lived with no other thought
  Than to love and be loved by me.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Famous Love, Maidens

  "Annabel Lee" l. 5 (1849)

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• Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Agreement, Differences

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• The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Time, Imagination, Noses

  1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jul.

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