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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
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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And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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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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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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