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We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal
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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If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.
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The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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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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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
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Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
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A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
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Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee
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The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.
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