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The Fall of the House of Usher quotes

Edgar Allan Poe

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“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself,...” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon...” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

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