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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomaly!) that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Assignation
But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Bernice - the complete stories (of Edgar Allan Poe)
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
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.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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