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Quotes from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket — Edgar Allan Poe

1809–1849 United States

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In this boat we were in the habit of going on some of the maddest freaks in the world.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)

I now feel it impossible to realize the full extent of the misery which I endured.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)

In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)

My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edgar Allan Poe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.