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• That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Regret, Wish, Desire

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.269, University of Illinois Press

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• And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sweet, Musical, Fancy

  Edgar Allan Poe (1947). “The Pit and the Pendulum. - Wien: Leinmüller 1947. 32 S. kl. 8° (Englische Lesehefte f. Schule u. Haus. 3.)”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

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• When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Madmen, Jackets, Sane

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.713, Library of America

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• Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Gone, Worst, Eternal

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Notes, Hung, Ifs

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.312, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart
  From its present pathway part not!
  Being everything which now thou art,
  Be nothing which thou art not.
  So with the world thy gentle ways,
  Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
  Shall be an endless theme of praise,
  And love - a simple duty.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Art, Simple

  Edgar Allan Poe (1912). “The Bells and Other Poems”, p.65, Library of Alexandria

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• Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Thoughtful, Scary

  Edgar Allan Poe (2003). “Poems and Essays on Poetry”, p.142, Taylor & Francis

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• And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mistake, Madness, Senses

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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• Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Mad, Sanity

  "The Raven and the Monkey's Paw: Classics of Horror and Suspense".

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• Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspiring, Death, Past

  1850 'ForAnnie'.

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• In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Believe, Essence

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.111, Ageless Reads

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• And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Halloween, Lying, Ravens

  "The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

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• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Echoes, Long

  "The Raven" l. 25 (1845)

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• The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Fever, Lasts

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• The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Spring, Self, Forever

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• I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Receiving, Benefits

  Edgar Allan Poe, John Ward Ostrom, Burton Ralph Pollin, Jeffrey A. Savoye (2008). “The collected letters of Edgar Allan Poe”

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• Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Passion, Fate

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer, Maureen Cobb Mabbott (2000). “Tales and Sketches: 1831-1842”, p.229, University of Illinois Press

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• Grammar is the analysis of language.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Analysis, Language

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1305, Ageless Reads

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• 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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  Dream, Future, Mean

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Guinea, Notes, Should

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.312, Wordsworth Editions

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• A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Science, Opinion, Pleasure

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3486, Delphi Classics

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• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Literature, Danger, Terror

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.161, Bottletree Books LLC

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• I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wells, Alas, Loveliness

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.185, Race Point Publishing

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• You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Evil, Giving, Romance

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.463, Penguin

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Poetry, Purpose

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.715, Wordsworth Editions

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