"All extremes of feeling are allied to madness."
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"Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions."
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"Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer."
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"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
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"If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses"
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"Books have led some to learning and others to madness."
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"The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit."
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"In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same."
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"Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness."
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"To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy."
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"Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?"
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"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."
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"He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness."
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"Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else."
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"Madness breeds madness."
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"Love is merely a madness."
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"A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism."
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"Evil is whatever distracts."
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"[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism."
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"The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public."
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