Quotation by Edgar Allan Poe

The painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, "This is indeed Life itself!" turned suddenly to regard his beloved:MShe was dead!
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. author. repr. "The Oval Portrait." "Life in Death," Graham's Magazine (1842).

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