"There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through."
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"Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness."
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"God, here and there, makes madness a calling."
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"Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman."
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"There is no genius without a mixture of madness."
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"In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach."
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"Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable."
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"It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones."
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"Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now."
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"Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another."
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"Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks."
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"The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed."
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"A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness."
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"No life is complete without a touch of madness."
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"Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human."
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"And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot."
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"Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer."
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"Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity."
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"longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness"
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"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes."
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