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“And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.”
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“I have spoken of the learning of Ligeia: it was immense-- such as I have never known in woman. With how vast and triumph-- with how vivid a delight-- did I feel, in the studies which we pursued together, that delicious vista by slow degrees expanding before me!”
― Best Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
― Best Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
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