I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."

[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]


Edgar Allan Poe

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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You sho...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
تنفلت المواد من إدراك حواس الإنسان تدريجياً. لدينا مثل�...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more...
EDGAR ALLAN POE