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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
β€” Edgar Allan Poe
Tags: pain, melancholy, loneliness, drugs, drinking, alchohol, addiction

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
β€” Edgar Allan Poe The Mystery of Marie RogΓͺt
Tags: truth, relevance, philosophy, life, irrelevance
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
β€” Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
Tags: poetry, love
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
β€” Edgar Allan Poe
Tags: poetry
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
β€” Edgar Allan Poe
Tags: women, poetry, death, beauty
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
β€” Edgar Allan Poe
Tags: out, imagination, poetry, fear, religion, organized-religion, irreligion
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