That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.


Edgar Allan Poe

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The End of the Raven

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...only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and ho...
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At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit som...
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Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção.
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Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???...
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A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
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It's odd that a lot of designers were on the Slavic slant.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
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Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless
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And the raven quote, nevermore.
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Darkness there, and nothing more.
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Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!
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years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
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I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc...
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True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficien...
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When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fort...
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty
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All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volum...
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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the ...
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this / that offences against Charity are about the o...
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...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ...
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A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you...
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Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is t...
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In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose...
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Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions ...
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the o...
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From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were--I have not seenAs others saw.
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Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth ma...
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...And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted--nevermore!
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There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume t...
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I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.
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Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human ...
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impul...
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles i...
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In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values,...
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expectiing that it soon will be so.
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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
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Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have b...
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All I lov'd I lov'd alone.
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the uno...
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I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry
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But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the...
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You sho...
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تنفلت المواد من إدراك حواس الإنسان تدريجياً. لدينا مثل�...
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The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more...
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Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
Yo...
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