Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.


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The angels, whispering to one another Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotiona...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said "Nevermore.
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[Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness
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A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages...
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portio...
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I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "od...
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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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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 ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were--I have not seenAs others saw.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You sho...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
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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