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“Immediately the devil in me again whispered that this was the cue for my second entrance on the stage for a brutally deceptive play, a performance starring a maniac!”

“My friend, undoubtedly, had tried to explore the regions of the unknown, violating sacred taboos, thereby incurring the wrath of the gods. By trying to pry open the secret portals of forbidden knowledge with his weird mania of optics he had destroyed himself.”

“The pitiful thing was that he was incapable of wiping away the tears which those eyes could still shed. He had no power to threaten her other than that of working himself into an abnormal heat of frenzy. These fits of wrath usually came on whenever he was reminded that he would never again be able to succumb, of his own free will, to the one overwhelming temptation which was always lurking within him.”

"Give a guilty man enough rope," rejoined Dr. Akechi philosophically, "and he'll supply enough evidence to hang himself.”

"The dead tell no tales.”

“Yes, you may consider this the confession of a madman, for I was mad, madly in love with her! Ultimately I began to feel that if she would just look at me, even for a brief passing moment, I could die with the deepest contentment.”