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• And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Doors, Darkness, Heard

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Doubt, May, Enigma

  "The Gold-Bug" (1843).

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• In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Long, Remembrance

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.564, Race Point Pub

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• 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.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Impatient, Plunge

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.398, Broadview Press

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• Those 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 that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Night, Evil

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Complete Tales & Poems”, p.649, Vintage

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• That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Regret, Wish, Desire

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.269, University of Illinois Press

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• Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sad, Lying, Love Is

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.396, University of Illinois Press

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• Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Poetry, Tone, Melancholy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.148, Lulu.com

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• There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Littles, Might

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.350, Ageless Reads

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• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Happiness, Real

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2124, Delphi Classics

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• The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Communication, Thoughtful, Silence

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• I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Receiving, Benefits

  Edgar Allan Poe, John Ward Ostrom, Burton Ralph Pollin, Jeffrey A. Savoye (2008). “The collected letters of Edgar Allan Poe”

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• And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
  And Horror the soul of the plot.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Plot, Madness

  Edgar Allan Poe (2001). “Great Horror Stories”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Pain, Heart, Hell

  Edgar Allan Poe (1902). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems”

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• The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Truth, Greater, Written

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1322, Library of America

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• You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stories, Seekers

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories”, p.225, First Avenue Editions

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• In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Dark, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales”, p.36, Library of America

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• A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Men, Wife

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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• Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Animal, Thoughtful, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.122, Bottletree Books LLC

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• In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Reading

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1850). “The Literati: Some Honest Opinions about Autorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Works of Personality. Together with Marginalia, Suggestions, and Essays”, p.540

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• Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Thoughtful, Scary

  Edgar Allan Poe (2003). “Poems and Essays on Poetry”, p.142, Taylor & Francis

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• Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Luxury, Sole

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.134, Hackett Publishing

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• I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mean, Poor, Made

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3259, Delphi Classics

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• Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Enthusiasm, Eloquence, Doubted

  Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Wilhelm Hauff (2011). “The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology”, p.17, Bottletree Books LLC

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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.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Courage, Thoughtful, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2136, Delphi Classics

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