"The Black Cat" Quotes
A man's descent into madness and violence is triggered by his obsession with a black cat.
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Quotes
Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream.
I neither expect nor solicit belief.
I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect.
The whole house was blazing.
The rage of a demon instantly possessed me.
The cat followed me down the steep stairs, and, nearly throwing me headlong, exasperated me to madness.
I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!
To-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me.
