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Edgar Allan Poe

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

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Submitted on Tue, 2009-08-18 18:10 — lucy.
Link to full quote: Quote #2346 from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe



While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door,
A hideous
throng rush out forever,
And laugh - but smile no more.

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Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:29 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #1257 from The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe



They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:29 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #1009 from Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe



Sleep, what slices of death, how I loathe them.

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Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:29 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #804 by Edgar Allan Poe



Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart – one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

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Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #574 from The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe



But see, amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes!--it writhes!--with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And the angels sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.

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Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #545 from The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe



Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows.

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Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #546 from Shadow by Edgar Allan Poe



I could not love except where Death
Was mingling his with Beauty's breath ?

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Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #547 from Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poem by Edgar Allan Poe



My best friend would be the man who gave me a pistol that I might blow out my brains.

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Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #550 from on his deathbed by Edgar Allan Poe



And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

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Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #526 from The Pit And The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe



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