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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Past

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• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Mind, Literature

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.32, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crazy, Men, Divinity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.26

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• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Intelligent, Men, Insanity

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.494, Wordsworth Editions

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• A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

  Walter Winchell

  Crazy, Air, Dungeons

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• Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.

  John Keats

  Dancing, Together, Sane

  John Keats (1991). “Complete Poems”, p.164, Harvard University Press

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• Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

  Voltaire

  Wise, Daughter, Mother

  Voltaire (1989). “Voltaire: selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Crazy, Order, Years

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• the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Friends, Horse

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

  Remedios Varo

  Funny, Crazy, Humorous

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• America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

  Lester Roloff

  Running, Crazy, Usa

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• When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Acceptance, Insanity

  Letter to Maxim Gorky, 28 Dec. 1915

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• You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, People, Secret

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• Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Ravens, Ideas

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• Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Crazy, Men

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 2, ch. 12

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• I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Sometimes, Sanity

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.269, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• she’s mad, but she’s magic.

  Charles Bukowski

  Magic

  Charles Bukowski, “An Almost Made Up Poem”

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• I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.

  Drake

  Relationship, Crazy, Humble

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• Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Fun, Believe, Population Problem

  "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1966.

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• Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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• People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

  Stephen King

  People, Trying, Ethics

  "The Stand". Book by Stephen King, September 1978.

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• Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Believe, Godly

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• And how do you know that you're mad?

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Alice In Wonderland Alice, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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