Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

Edgar Allan Poe

• Demon
• Possessed
• Fury

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• Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense. Some consider me as a demon or a wolf in Buddhist robes. That also, I think nonsense.

  

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• I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.

  

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• The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Demon
  • Possessed
  • Fury