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• Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

  David Levithan

  Self, Bookstores, Helping

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.3, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Lovers, Fantasy

  1595 Theseus. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, sc.1, l.4-6.

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• The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Crazy, Fire Of Love

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• That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

  J. D. Salinger

  Swear To God, Terrible, Swear

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry you, Mr Lipspick. Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha!' Ha ha,' agreed Moist. Ha hah hah!,' said Hubert. 'Hahahahahaha!! Ahahahahahahhhhh!!!!!-' Bent slapped him on the back. Hubert coughed. Sorry about that, it's the air down here,' he mumbled.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Mean, Light

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• Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Choices, World

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.129, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Jealous, Said, Possessive

  Lisa Kleypas (2013). “The Hathaways Complete Series: Mine Till Midnight, Seduce Me at Sunrise, Tempt Me at Twilight, Married by Morning, and Love in the Afternoon”, p.1414, Macmillan

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• Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

  Herman Melville

  Eye, Looks, Ifs

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.504, Northwestern University Press

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• A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lost Everything, Reason, Lost

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• Thousands of children are killed by handguns in the United States each year. What is that about? What are we doing? We accept that? And we accept the presence of these weapons that are in silos and on submarines and airplanes? If any madman gets hold of them - and certainly there are madmen out there who will figure out how to get hold of them, they always have - what are we even making such things for?

  Wayne Dyer

  Children, Airplane, Accepting

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• Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Love Is, House

  William Shakespeare (1810). “As You Like it: A Comedy”, p.45

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• And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Dark, Space

  Prufrock (1917) "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

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• I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Reputation, Crank

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.163, A&C Black

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• "I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Trying, Panic Attacks

  "Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver". Book by E. Lockhart, 2010.

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• Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His
  being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Son

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• The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Laughter, Men

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• And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. 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. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Ideas, Mad

  Antonin Artaud (1988). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.485, Univ of California Press

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• If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Doubt, Mind

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 11 (3 April 1776)

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• What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Angel, Sight, Goes On

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1975). “Ghost Stories and Mysteries”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

  Robert Aickman

  Difficult, Sane, Know How

  Robert Aickman (2001). “The collected strange stories”

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• Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

  Clare Boylan

  Depression, Mean, Yesterday

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• It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Order, People

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• Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Being Positive, Negative

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• Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Fighting, Empires

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• The tiny madman in his padded cell.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Baby, Cells, Tiny

  1955 Humbert Humbert's description of an embryo. Lolita, ch.11.

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