#madness

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

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I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius. ↗

— Marston Morse

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An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria. ("The Chymist") ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. ↗

— Yann Martel

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