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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
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Edgar Allan Poe
Age: 40 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 19
Died: 1849
Died: October 7
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And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh — but smile no more.
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Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.
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Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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The fever called living Is conquer'd at last.
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I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
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You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
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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.
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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.
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...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore
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The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
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