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“The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action. We glow, we are consumed with eagerness to commence the work, with the anticipation of whose glorious result our whole souls are on fire. It must, it shall be undertaken to-day, and yet we put it off until to-morrow: and why?”

The dynamic of Dupin and the narrator reminds me of Sherlock and Watson

“That it is a vast pity its inditer was not born a parrot—in which case he would have been the most illustrious parrot of his race.”

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“I call upon her name—Berenice!—and from the gray ruins of memory a thousand tumultuous recollections are startled at the sound!”