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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt quotes

Edgar Allan Poe

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“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
“I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
“The mass of the people regard as profound only him who suggests pungent contradictions of the general idea. In ratiocination, not less than in literature, it is the epigram which is the most immediately and the most universally appreciated. In...” Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

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