Today is Edgar's birthday.
Today marks 213 years since his birth.

Poe... Their stories have fascinated me since I was a little kid, their stories accompanied me during my primary school days (my precocious thing about that, yes), during college, and now they look at me from the bookshelf, smiling benevolently.
Was he who initiated me into this taste of mine for fantastic literature and gothic literature.
I'm not going to tell you stories about his life, that's what Wikipedia is for, for example. But I would like to leave you my selection of the Poe quotes that have marked me the most. Just to pay him a small tribute. Intimate.

Happy birthday, dearest Edgar. ♥

I have no faith in human perfection. Man is now more active, not happier, nor more intelligent, than he was 6000 years ago.

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Believe only half of what you see and none of what you hear.

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I have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it.

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Science has not yet taught us whether madness is or is not the most sublime of intelligence.

Those who dream during the day are aware of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

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The evil demon is one of the first instincts of the human heart.

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Men of genius are much more abundant than is supposed. In reality, to fully appreciate the work of what we call genius, it is necessary to possess all the genius it took to produce the work.

The death of a beautiful woman is, without a doubt, the most poetic theme in the world.

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In music is perhaps where the soul comes closest to the great goal for which it fights when it feels inspired by poetic feeling: the creation of supernatural beauty.

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If I were asked to define the term art in a few words, I would call it the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

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Death is bravely confronted and then invited to a drink.

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I went mad, with long intervals of horrible sanity.