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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes about Reality

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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

Edgar Allan Poe
Reality, Insanity, Causes

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

Edgar Allan Poe
Writing, Thoughtful, Reality

Invisible things are the only realities.

Edgar Allan Poe
Halloween, Reality, Invisible
Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer, Maureen Cobb Mabbott (2000). “Tales and Sketches: 1831-1842”, p.64, University of Illinois Press

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Edgar Allan Poe
Thoughtful, Reality, Superficial
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Literary Theory and Criticism”, p.126, Courier Corporation

The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Reality, Land
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.72, University of Illinois Press

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.

Edgar Allan Poe
Reality, Air, Facts

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