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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general re...more

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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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We loved with a love that was more than love.

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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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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Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that ...more

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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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity...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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If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

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