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Edgar Allan Poe

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

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Edgar Allan Poe is suggesting that madness might be an extreme or elevated form of intelligence, but science has not proven this idea either way. He highlights the uncertainty about whether what we call madness could actually represent a higher or different kind of intellectual ability.

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