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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.

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In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.

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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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I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or ...more

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whe...more

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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?

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True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, n...more