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I think our lives are surely but the dreams
Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake.


Edgar Saltus

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Edgar Saltus

Edgar Saltus

Born: October 8, 1855
Died: July 31, 1921 (aged 65)
Bio: Edgar Evertson Saltus was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Joris-Karl Huysmans and Oscar Wilde.
Known for:
  1. The philosophy of disenchantment (1885)
  2. Anatomy of Negation (1886)
  3. HISTORIA AMORIS (1906)
  4. The Paliser Case (1919)
  5. Lords of the Ghostland (1907)

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