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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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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Boston
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Edgar Poe
E. A. Poe
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The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
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Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.
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It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. Death, I said, any death but that of the pit! Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
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