"Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness."
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"Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial."
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"The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along."
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"I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here."
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"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."
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"The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else."
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"I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart."
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"[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor."
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"I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk."
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"Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools."
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"The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth."
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"For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?"
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"Fools are not mad folks."
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"I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!"
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"The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad."
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"I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same. But one thing that *has* changed is that I've always been aggressively pro-business, with the mentality that whoever pays me, gets me - but now, I'd rather be broke than contribute to destroying the world my son is inheriting - both the social fabric, and obviously the environmental."
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"I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does."
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"I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober."
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"I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer."
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"We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves."
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