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Edgar Allan Poe quotes

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“But we loved with a love that was more than love” Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
“Darkness there, and nothing more.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
“Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“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—that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for...” Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
“I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself,...” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I...” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, in there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon...” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“The necessary knowledge is that of what to observe.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly” Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
“This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“The mass of the people regard as profound only him who suggests pungent contradictions of the general idea. In ratiocination, not less than in literature, it is the epigram which is the most immediately and the most universally appreciated. In...” Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
“Any deviation from normality involves a tendency to return into it.” Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka
“The mind . . . entertains the idea of limitless, through the greater difficulty which it finds in entertaining that of limited, space.” Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka
“It is merely because a stepping-stone, here and there, is heedlessly left unsupplied in our road to the Differential Calculus, that this latter is not altogether as simple a thing as a sonnet by Mr. Solomon Seesaw.” Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka

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