"The universe without music would be madness."
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"Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness."
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"He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles."
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"Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention."
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"I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them."
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"Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."
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"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."
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"I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it."
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"There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit"
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"The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness."
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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
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"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
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"Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast."
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"I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy."
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"... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything."
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"That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity."
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"Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it."
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"I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time."
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"Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously."
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"So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses."
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