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“...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.”

Book:The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

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The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

This volume includes a selection of Poe's most famous works, such as 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' 'The Raven,' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' showcasing his unique style and contributions to the genres of horror and mystery. more

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Edgar Allan Poe

American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. Known for his short stories and poetry, particularly his works of horror and mystery. His most famous works include 'The Black Cat', 'The Raven', and 'Annabel Lee'. more

“During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen.”

Ifs Stories Use Home Happens Purpose Fall Answers Audience Happened Air Busy Radio London Russia Britain Historian

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

“Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.”

Fate Jokes Series

Book:Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”

Mean Facts Certain Poverty Worry Limits Discovery Hunger Features Boredom Complication Redeeming

Book:Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.”

Humans Human Beings Machines Capitalist Cogs

Book:Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London

“Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.”

Water Blood Conditions Effects Hunger Lukewarm Influenza Spineless Brainless

Book:Orwell and the dispossessed: Down and out in Paris and London in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from The complete works of George Orwell

Source: Orwell and the dispossessed: Down and out in Paris and London in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from The complete works of George Orwell

“I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.”

Years Wells Has Beens Answers Four Ought Periods Civilization Speech Hundred Argument Opposites Claims Convince Freedom Of Thought

Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

“If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.”

Ifs Book Six Lists Destroyed Gulliver Gulliver's Travels

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.”