Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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  • Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
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  • All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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  • Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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  • I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.
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  • I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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  • Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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  • Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
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  • Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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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  • 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.
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  • Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
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  • Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
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  • It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
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