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• Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspiring, Death, Past

  1850 'ForAnnie'.

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• You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Evil, Giving, Romance

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.463, Penguin

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• Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Night, Light

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.817, Bottletree Books LLC

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• Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sight, Smell, Odor

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1858). “The literati”, p.515

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• I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eye, Half, Facts

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.597, University of Illinois Press

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• Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Truth, Philosophy, Irrelevance

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.213, University of Illinois Press

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• To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Men, Iron

  1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jun.

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• Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Doors, Ravens

  "The Raven" l. 101 (1845)

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• As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Strong, Exercise, Men

  1841 Of detective work.'TheMurders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.

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• [E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Air, Views, Names

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.243, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart
  From its present pathway part not!
  Being everything which now thou art,
  Be nothing which thou art not.
  So with the world thy gentle ways,
  Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
  Shall be an endless theme of praise,
  And love - a simple duty.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Art, Simple

  Edgar Allan Poe (1912). “The Bells and Other Poems”, p.65, Library of Alexandria

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• For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
  of the beautiful Annabel Lee

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Dream, Moon

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.196, Race Point Publishing

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• The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Power, Simple, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

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• It was many and many a year ago,
  In a kingdom by the sea,
  That a maiden there lived whom you may know
  By the name of Annabel Lee;--
  And this maiden she lived with no other thought
  Than to love and be loved by me.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Death, Book

  "Annabel Lee" l. 5 (1849)

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Gentleman, Pugs, Noses

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1340, Library of America

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• It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Reality, Superficial

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Literary Theory and Criticism”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Imagination, Literature, Facts

  1841 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

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  Sad, Rap, Doors

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mistake, Heart, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.83, Prestwick House Inc

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• I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mind, Enthusiasm, Melancholy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Sleep, Sound

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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.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Future, Mean

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Taught Us, Intelligence

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• Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  People, Able, Fats

  Edgar Allan Poe (2011). “The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Halloween, Lying, Ravens

  "The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

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