Were I to be asked what it is that gives me the most intense delight, I should say a conversation with a beautiful woman.
Horror, detective fiction
Often attributed, but exact source is debated. Similar sentiments expressed in letters.
Uncertain
Found in 1 providers: grok
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"That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses."
Strange & Unusual"Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them."
Strange & Unusual"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
Strange & Unusual"Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"
Strange & Unusual"The most remarkable feature in this production is the bad paper on which it is printed, and the typographical ingenuity with which matter barely enough for one volume has been spread over the pages of…"
Controversial