Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

This genius writer wondered if madness might be "the loftiest intelligence," and if perhaps "all that is profound" might spring "from the disease of thought "?

  1. Virginia Woolf

  2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. Edgar Allen Poe

  4. L Ron Hubbard
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Explanation

Edgar Allan Poe explored the relationship between madness and creative genius in his literary works, expressing the idea that profound thought might spring from "disease of thought." Virginia Woolf and Dostoyevsky also touched on mental themes but this specific quote is Poe's.

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