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There is no beauty without some strangeness
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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Crime Writer
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Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
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The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
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Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)
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In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed but to know all were the curse of a fiend
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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.
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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
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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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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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In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.
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Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
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Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.
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