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“True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
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“There is no passion more selfish than the passion for control.”
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“It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
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“I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult.”
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“I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”
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“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.”
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“I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph.”
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“For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.”
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“Time and again I counted his heart’s beats.”
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“Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing.”
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“Object there was none. Passion there was none.”
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“If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body.”
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“I moved it slowly – very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man’s sleep.” SCIENCE AND GOD QUOTES
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“And now a single tap, too light to be heard through the envelope that concealed the body, aroused me from my dream-like state.”
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“What had I to fear? No one suspected me.”
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“I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer!”
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“No doubt I now grew very pale; but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice.”
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“Ha! Ha! – would a madman have been so wise as this?”
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“My manner had convinced them. I was safe.”
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“The guilt of the deed I perpetrate weighed heavily upon my soul.”
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“I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”
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“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! – tear up the planks! – here, here! – it is the beating of his hideous heart!”
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“It was a low, dull, quick sound – much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.”
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“I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men.”
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“His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness, for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers, and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door.”