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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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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Boston
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Edgar Poe
E. A. Poe
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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
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The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
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Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
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