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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Edgar Allan Poe

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

Edgar Allan Poe

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe, Dream Within a Dream

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

Edgar Allan Poe, From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II

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.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat, 1843

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold Bug

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

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