Edgar Allan Poe
"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
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"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."