The Murders in the Rue Morgue quotes
6 quotes from The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
About Edgar Allan Poe
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries, and in Paris these are easily obtained.
Truth is not always in a well.
The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
They have fallen into the gross but common error of confounding the unusual with the abstruse.
In investigations such as we are now pursuing, it should not be so much asked 'what has occurred,' as 'what has occurred that has never occurred before.'
Our friend the Prefect is somewhat too cunning to be profound.
The Friday Letter
One story from the atlas, every Friday.
No algorithms chasing attention. A work, a place, and the connection between them — with the history checked.