“The last speech, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity — how awful!”

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On Iago soliloquy in Othello, in "Notes on Shakespeare" (c. 1812)

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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