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Quotes from The Tell-Tale Heart — Edgar Allan Poe

1809–1849 United States

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TRUE! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — tear up the planks! — here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!"

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)

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