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  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

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• To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

  Don DeLillo

  Editing, Self, Voice

  1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.5.

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Dream, Art, Struggle

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  We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  "The Middle Years" (1893)

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• There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

  Seneca the Younger

  Elements, Talent, Great Talent

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• 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Mad, People

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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.

  Rebecca West

  Future, Certain, Tragic

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• Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Wings, Insanity

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• Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

  John Lennon

  Life, Depression, Running

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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• We all go a little mad sometimes.

  Joseph Stefano

  Mad, Serial Killer, Littles

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

  Theodore Roethke

  Positive, Positivity, Odds

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.341, Anchor

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• A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

  Emily Dickinson

  Kings, Spring, Insanity

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

  Voltaire

  Optimistic, Optimism, Miserable

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• Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

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• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

  Voltaire

  Depression, Thinking, Bipolar

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• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Insanity, Soul

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mean, Design, Insanity

  Maxims

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• What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Love, Life, Dream

  "Life is a Dream". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1635.

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• There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Depression, Creativity

  "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

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• The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Writing, Reason

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• It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

  Thomas Fuller

  Peace, Sheep, Fidgeting

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• There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Winning, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Inspirational, Photography, Cutting

  "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 412), 2006.

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• I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Definitions, Pounds

  "Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos". Book by Jean-Michel Rabate, Jean-Michel Rabaté (p. 142), 1986.

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