Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Heart Quotes, Doors Quotes

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.

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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

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No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.

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My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.

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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

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In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

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I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

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Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

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..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

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But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

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Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

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[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

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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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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

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Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

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