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“The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.” — Margaret Walker

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“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.” — Andre Maurois

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“The devil is in the details.”

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“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.” — Epicurus

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“If you’ve never met the devil on the road of life, it's because you’re both heading in the same direction.”

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“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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