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The Tell-Tale Heart Quotes

True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.

Source:The works of Edgar Allan Poe (1903), Volume 2, Page 352
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Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart Quotes)
  • Book: The Tell-Tale Heart
  • Writer: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Genre: Short Stories, Horror
  • Published: 1843
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