#madness

So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I’m sure the Clave will be ecstatic.” “They’ll just say you’re mad,” said Jessamine. “They already think it, so what’s the difference, really? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

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Sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#madness

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#madness

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

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It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now. ↗

— Sean Connery

#cosmopolitan #kind #madness #now

It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#madness #reason #war #dreams

You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ↗