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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.

— Fitz James O'Brien What Was It? A Mystery (1859)

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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)

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