Edgar Allan Poe — "I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly in…"

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
Edgar Allan Poe — Edgar Allan Poe Modern · Horror, detective fiction

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From a letter to George W. Eveleth.

Date: 1848

Self-Deprecating

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