Edgar Allan Poe — Quotes and Wisdom

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Were it not for the instrumentality of words, we should be mere machines.

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams.

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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I believe in nothing in the world but the soul.

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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.