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“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.”
― The Cask of Amontillado
― The Cask of Amontillado
“That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
― The Raven
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
― The Raven
“I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief --oh, no! --it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart.”
― The Tell-Tale Heart
― The Tell-Tale Heart
“How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
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