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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Age: 40 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 19
Died: 1849
Died: October 7
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Crime Writer
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Edgar Poe
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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
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There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.
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A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)
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And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
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