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1. "Aquellos que sueñan de día comprenden muchas cosas que escapan a los que sueñan solo de noche." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
2. "Eagerly I wished the morrow;- vainly I had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore- For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore- Nameless here forevermore." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
3. "Lo! 'tis a gala nightWithin the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedightIn veils, and drowned in tears,Sit in a theatre, to seeA play of hopes and fears [...]" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
4. "Y puesto que por persona entendemos una esencia inteligente dotada de razón, y el pensar siempre va acompañado por una conciencia, ella es la que nos hace ser eso que llamamos nosotros mismos, distinguiéndonos, en consecuencia, de los otros serés que piensan y confiriéndonos nuestra identidad personal." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
5. "And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
6. "Le chemin des passions me conduit — as Lord Edouard in the "Julie" says it did him — à la philosophie veritable." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
7. "Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
8. "He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension præternatural." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
9. "The teeth!—the teeth!—they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
10. "Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o'er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,' said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?' ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,' The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
11. "If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
12. "Rána bicem zpusobí modrinu, ale rána jazykem drtí kosti." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
13. "At length for my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm floor of the prison. I struggled no more, but the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long, and final scream of despair. I felt that I tottered upon the brink -- I averted my eyes --" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
14. "It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of ANNABEL LEE;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
15. "oppressively" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
16. "La mayor parte de los filósofos son muy poco filosóficos con respecto a muchos aspectos de la filosofía." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
17. "Son cœur est un luth suspendu ;" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
18. "If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
19. "Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
20. "Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
21. "Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
22. "In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
23. "In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
24. "Blood was its Avatar and its seal." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
25. "I Dwelt aloneIn a world of moan,And my soul was a stagnant tide,Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride-Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride Ah, less-less bright The stars of nightThan the eyes of the radiant girl! And never a flake That the vapor can make With the moon-tints of purple and pearl,Can vie with the modest Eulalie's most unregarded curl-Can vie compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie's most humble and careless curl Now Doubt-now Pain Come never again, For her soul gives me sigh for sigh, And all day long Shine, bright and strong, Astarte within the sky, While ever to her dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye- While ever to her young Eulalie upturns her violet eye." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
26. "Una injuria queda sin reparar, cuando su justo castigo perjudica al vengador." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
27. "in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind - that as a species we have in our possession the as yet unwroght elements of content - and that, even now, in the present darkness and madness of all thought on the great question of social condition, it is not impossible that man, the individual, under certain unusual and highly fortuitous conditions, my be happy" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
28. "(For passion must, with youth, expire)" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
29. "I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
30. "Dobbiamo tenere a mente che, in generale, fare sensazione, colpire le fantasie, per i nostri giornali è più importante che volere la verità. La verità è interessante soltanto quando coincide con la sensazione. La stampa che segua solo opinioni correnti, anche se si tratti di opinioni fondate, non ha credito fra la massa. La massa considera profondo solo chi suggerisce aspre contraddizioni con le idee generali. Nella logica, non meno che nella letteratura, il più pungente è l'epigramma e anche il più universalmente apprezzato; in entrambi i campi è quello più a buon mercato.(Cavaliere C. Auguste Dupin)" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
31. "calmly" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
32. "Deep in earth my love is lyingAnd I must weep alone." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
33. "The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former, that a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, and that its subsequent momentum is commensurate with this difficulty, than it is, in the latter, that intellects of the vaster capacity, while more forcible, more constant, and more eventful in their movements than those of inferior grade, are yet the less readily moved, and more embarrassed, and full of hesitation in the first few steps of their progress" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
34. "To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
35. "There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
36. "I remained to much inside my head and ended up losing my mind" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
37. "It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
38. "...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
39. "I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it -That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: -I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I,But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
40. "To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
41. "A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
42. "The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
43. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
44. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
45. "I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
46. "Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
47. "A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no words written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind of him who contemplates it with a kindred art, a sense of the fullest satisfaction. The idea of the tale has been presented unblemished because undisturbed: and this is an end unattainable by the novel. Undue brevity is just as exceptionable here as in the poem; but undue length is yet more to be avoided." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
48. "A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
49. "If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
50. "But our love, it was stronger by far than the love of those who were older than we,of many far wiser than we.And neither the angels in heaven above,nor the demons down under the sea,can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful annabel lee..." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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