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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)
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
E. A. Poe
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Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.
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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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Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly, I wished the morrow - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore - For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.
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Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.
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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
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We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
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My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
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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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