Edgar Allan Poe

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

"Sometimes I'm terrified of my own heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts."

"Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute."

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

"There is not exquisite beauty...without some strangeness in the proportion."

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the entire horror of their reality."

"I don't suffer from insanity but enjoy every minute of it."

"I was never insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

"I remained so much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."

"To elevate the soul, poetry is needed."

"And so being young
and dipped in folly,
I fell in love
with melancholy."

"If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry."

"A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on."

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

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