"In my madness I see your face in mine."
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"What people do for the struggle of power is madness."
"One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge."
"Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness."
"Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius"
"You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!"
"Sanity is madness put to good use."
"Too much sanity may be madness!"
"Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye."
"The idea of excessive diversification is madness."
"Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness."
"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
"Every great genius has an admixture of madness."
"Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker"
"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."
"Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse."
"Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be."
"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."
"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."
"Like madness, is the glory of this life."