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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

Edgar Allan Poe
Lying, Boots, World

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

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

Edgar Allan Poe
Sad, Lying, Love Is
Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.396, University of Illinois Press

And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Lying, Eye
"The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

Edgar Allan Poe
Halloween, Lying, Ravens
"The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

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
Lying, Believe, Essence
Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.111, Ageless Reads

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

Edgar Allan Poe
Lying, Mountain, Depth
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.

Edgar Allan Poe
Lying, Law, Insanity
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

Edgar Allan Poe
Honesty, Lying, Book
Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.601, Penguin

I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression.

Edgar Allan Poe
Lying, Fall, Simple
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Fall of the House of Usher”, p.2, Booklassic

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