#madness

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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

— Milan Kundera

#culture #madness #perishing #quantity #words

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

#cannot #carry #certain #change #fundamental

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ↗

— Seneca

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ↗

— Seneca

#madness #nothing #voluntary

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. ↗

— Petrarch

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Books have led some to learning and others to madness. ↗

— Petrarch

#learning #led #madness #others #some

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#divisions #end #few #find #gain

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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