Edgar Allan Poe — "Why does a lady in tight corsets never need comfort? Because she's already so la…"
Why does a lady in tight corsets never need comfort? Because she's already so laced. — solaced.
Why does a lady in tight corsets never need comfort? Because she's already so laced. — solaced.
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"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."
"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years…"
"True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acut…"
"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."
"It is an evil growing out of our republican institutions, that here a man of large purse has usually a very little soul which he keeps in it."
American Gothic poet and short-story writer who invented the detective story (Murders in the Rue Morgue) and shaped horror literature. Closely associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne (fellow American Gothic) and Charles Baudelaire (his French translator and torch-bearer). For an intellectual contrast, see Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalist optimist of self-reliance — Poe wrote essays attacking the entire Transcendentalist circle as didactic and intellectually thin — he derisively called them 'Frogpondians' and treated their cheerful mysticism as the literary opposite of his macabre realism.
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