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Edgar Allan Poe Inspirational Quotes (232)

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There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.
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Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.
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Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!
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The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.
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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
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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
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
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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.
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
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I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.
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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.
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Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!
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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!
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