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How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe

American author, poet, editor and literary critic

January 19th, 1809 - October 7th, 1849

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