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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
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Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.
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To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.
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Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
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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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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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