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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ↗


— Edmund Burke


#folly #greatest #liberty #madness #possible

All of my characters have a glint of madness. ↗


— Nicolas Cage


#madness

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ↗


— Nikos Kazantzakis


#dare #else #free #little #madness

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. ↗


— Miguel de Cervantes


#madness #may #much #sanity #see

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. ↗


— Michel Foucault


#absolute #art #break #dissolves #forms

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy? ↗


— Libba Bray


#death #life #madness #death

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through. ↗


— Anaïs Nin


#surreal #surreal

The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a day I would be grounded, rooted. Said my head would not keep flying away to where the darkness lives. The psychic told me my heart carries too much weight. Said for twenty dollars she’d tell me what to do. I handed her the twenty. She said, “Stop worrying, darling. You will find a good man soon.” The first psycho therapist told me to spend three hours each day sitting in a dark closet with my eyes closed and ears plugged. I tried it once but couldn’t stop thinking about how gay it was to be sitting in the closet. The yogi told me to stretch everything but the truth. Said to focus on the out breath. Said everyone finds happiness when they care more about what they give than what they get. The pharmacist said, “Lexapro, Lamicatl, Lithium, Xanax.” The doctor said an anti-psychotic might help me forget what the trauma said. The trauma said, “Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.” But my bones said, “Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River convinced he was entirely alone.” My bones said, “Write the poems. ↗


— Andrea Gibson


#trauma #writing #focus

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


#afford #army #hires #howard #howard hughes

Success can create more madness than happiness. ↗


— Billy Ocean


#happiness #madness #more #success #than






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