"Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources."
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"Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman."
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"That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating."
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"For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?"
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"Love is . . . a madness most discreet"
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"We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness."
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"Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do."
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"Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders."
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"As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about."
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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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"There is no genius free from some tincture of madness"
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"I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women."
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"Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate."
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"First sign of madness, talking to your own head."
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"And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away."
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"The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness."
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"I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music."
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"Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness."
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"What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness."
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"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."
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