4 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe about pain
- Author Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
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- Author Edgar Allan Poe
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I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.
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The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.
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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
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