#madness

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ↗

— Andre Gide

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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. ↗

— Otto Weininger

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If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning. But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too. ↗

— Jerry Pinto

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It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

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When love is not madness, it is not love. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. ↗

— Bono

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We derive our vitality from our store of madness. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. ↗

— David Cronenberg

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I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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