Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Insanity
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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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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it
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...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.
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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– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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