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Fitz James O'Brien Quotes

1826–1862 United States

Fitz James O'Brien (25 October 1826–6 April 1862) was an Irish American Civil War soldier, writer, and poet.

United States
19th-century poets
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Poets

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We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.

Like every novice, I fancied myself a discoverer.

The Diamond Lens (1858)

I feel my capacity to experience a terror greater than anything yet conceived by the human mind—something combining in fearful and unnatural amalgamation hitherto supposed incompatible elements.

What Was It? A Mystery (1859)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fitz James O'Brien (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.