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Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.
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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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul you haven't experienced poetry.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.
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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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In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.
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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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This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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