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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

United States writer and poet (1809-1849)

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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

– Edgar Allan Poe

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All that we see and 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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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

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

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

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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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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Take this kiss upon the brow and, in parting from you now, thus much let me avow -- you are not wrong who deem that my days have been a dream yet if hope has flown away in a night, or in a day, in a vision, or in none, is it therefore the less gone all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

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

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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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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret.

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

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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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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.

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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

– Edgar Allan Poe

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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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Would be helpful if you included information about where these quotes appear.
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Robert Temple
weird and deep , but brilliant
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