The Murders in the Rue Morgue Quotes

“We existed within ourselves alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“[He] found the beast occupying his bedroom, into which it had broken from a closet adjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting before a looking-glass, attempting the operation of shaving, in which it had no doubt previously watched its master through the keyhole of the closet.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“As the strongman exalts in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as called his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play. He's fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears the ordinary apprehension præternatural.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“Истината не винаги се намира на дъното на кладенеца.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“Книгите, разбира се, представляваха единственият му разкош, а в Париж те са лесно достъпни.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“В действителност лесно се забелязва, че изобретателните винаги са фантазьори, докато онези с истинско въображение не могат да бъдат други освен аналитици.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“The mental features discoursed of as the
analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate
them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are
always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest
enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such
exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral
activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial
occupations bringing his talents into play. He is fond of enigmas, of
conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of
acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural. His results,
brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole
air of intuition.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“there are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. the occupation is often full of interest; and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue