Edgar Allan Poe

" I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. "
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Disaster , Weakness
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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. "
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Edgar Allan Poe
Man
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" The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. "
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Dreams , Man , World , Content , Hope
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" The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. "
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Death , World , Woman
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" The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? "
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Death
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" Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. "
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Intelligence , Madness , Science
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" Stupidity is a talent for misconception. "
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Talent , Stupidity
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" Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. "
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Mind , Power , Horror , Reality
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" The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. "
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Imagination , Time , Mob
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" That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. "
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Pleasure , Contemplation
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" The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. "
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Silence , Saying
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" There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. "
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Merit , Song
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" There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm. "
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Enthusiasm , Eloquence
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Edgar Allan Poe
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19-01-1809 07-10-1849 Writer, poet, and literary critic citation
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