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Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

Edgar Allan Poe
Opportunity, Forever, Gone
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

Edgar Allan Poe
Heart, Mystery, Moments
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Wind, Dull
Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.374, Bottletree Books LLC

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe
Love, Marriage, Valentines Day
"Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

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
Soul, Body, Flight
Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.35, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Happiness, Real
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2124, Delphi Classics

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

Edgar Allan Poe
Drinking, Beer, Alcohol
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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
Infinite, Absurd, Certainty

Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

Edgar Allan Poe
Lying, Believe, Important
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.130, Xist Publishing

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

Edgar Allan Poe
Law, People
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Edgar Allan Poe
Able, Said, Punning

It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

Edgar Allan Poe
Fall, Rain, Night
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More”, p.173, Lulu Press, Inc

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Plot, Madness
Edgar Allan Poe (2001). “Great Horror Stories”, p.11, Courier Corporation

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Edgar Allan Poe
Ratios, Goodness, Punning
"The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

Edgar Allan Poe
Night, Ideas, Brain
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.217, Hackett Publishing

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

Edgar Allan Poe
Mean, Poor, Made
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3259, Delphi Classics

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

Edgar Allan Poe
Death, Sleep, Littles

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

Edgar Allan Poe
Writing, Men, Wife
"The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

Edgar Allan Poe
Genius, Tension, Incompleteness
Edgar Allan Poe (1849). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.509

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

Edgar Allan Poe
Sarcasm, Misunderstood, Want
Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1206, Ageless Reads

The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.

Edgar Allan Poe
Heart, Affection, Intense
Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.442, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Mystery, Should
Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.75, University of Illinois Press

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe
Communication, Thoughtful, Silence

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry, Tone, Melancholy
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.148, Lulu.com

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

Edgar Allan Poe
Animal, Thoughtful, Men
Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.122, Bottletree Books LLC

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