Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Passion Quotes, Reflection Quotes

And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.

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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

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And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

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

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

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To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.

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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

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I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

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

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The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

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

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In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

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That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

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I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!

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

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Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

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