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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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There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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Lord help my poor soul.
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There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call death, is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
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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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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore
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And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.
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Men have called me mad but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.
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Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
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