As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

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In the final moments of his life, Edgar Allan Poe wrote about being unable to deceive himself about reality. There was a dark cloud looming on the horizon, and he was unable to distinguish between what was real and what was false. He wrote, “Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.” He was losing control of his emotions and mind, and he knew it. He wrote about the idea of being able to blame fortune for his downfall, but he also seemed to be ready to accept that reality might be out of his control.

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