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I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– wh...more

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Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

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I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy ...more

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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...