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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.


Seneca
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It takes madness to find out madness.


Lady Gregory
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Sanity is madness put to good use.


George Santayana
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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.


Sextus Propertius
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.


Aristotle
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Success can create more madness than happiness.


Billy Ocean
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.


Otto Weininger
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.


Emile M. Cioran
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.


Theodore Roethke
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.


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


Edgar Allan Poe
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.


Blaise Pascal
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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.


Mark Haddon
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.
Erin Heatherton
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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Anne Rice
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Camille Paglia
What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.
Dory Previn
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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller
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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
Italo Calvino
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan
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A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
Sufjan Stevens
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Geraldine Brooks
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
Ioan Gruffudd
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
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The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
Robin Williams
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I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
Philippe Petit
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
Luke Harding
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Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.
Will Self
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If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.
Arabella Weir
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