Edgar Allan Poe

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“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 dr...”