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.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

Edgar Allan Poe

soul monsters

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Edgar Allan Poe

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There is no beauty without some strangeness

Edgar Allan Poe

strangeness

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

Edgar Allan Poe

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

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And all I loved, I loved alone.

Edgar Allan Poe

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

Edgar Allan Poe

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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

Edgar Allan Poe

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Edgar Allan Poe

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

Edgar Allan Poe

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Edgar Allan Poe

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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe

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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Edgar Allan Poe

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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

Edgar Allan Poe

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