The Black Cat QUOTES

2 " Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? 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? "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Black Cat

4 " The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Black Cat

6 " Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Black Cat

8 " Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Black Cat

10 " One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Black Cat

12 " This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Black Cat

14 " ... tan seguro estoy de que mi alma existe como de que la perversidad es uno de los impulsos primordiales del corazón humano, una de las facultades primarias indivisibles, uno de esos sentimientos que dirigen el carácter del hombre. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Black Cat

16 " creo que la perversidad es uno de los primitivos impulsos del corazón humano, una de esas indivisibles primeras facultades o sentimientos que dirigen el carácter del hombre… "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Black Cat