"Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves."
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"Collective madness is called sanity."
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"Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift."
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"What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there."
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"Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness."
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"Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing."
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"You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage."
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"Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it."
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"The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness."
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"Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity."
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"Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen."
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"Madness is a kind of mental suicide."
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"Madness in method, that's genius"
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"Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity."
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"Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible."
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"Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are."
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"No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is."
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"Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity."
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"One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans."
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"And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?"
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