||Edgar Allen Poe||

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A/N: This chapter will probably have the most, considering he's my favorite out of all the authors.

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"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

(Literally, my favorite quote of all time. 👏)

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

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“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it."

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

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“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."

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“ From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."

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“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them."

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“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute."

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“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."

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“ I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."

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“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."

(That's some deep Poe-ism right thur...😏)

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“I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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."

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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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“ The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said."

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