Edgar Allan Poe

United States
19 Jan 1809 // 7 Oct 1849
Poet

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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

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

Eleonora
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays