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Quotes on Madness

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle · Madness · 7 fans >>
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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."

Artaud, Antonin · Madness · 2 fans >>
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"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

Ballard, J. G. · Madness · 7 fans >>
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"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me."

Baudelaire, Charles · Madness · 2 fans >>
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"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."

Broch, Hermann · Madness · 4 fans >>
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"One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore."

Cooley, Charles Horton · Madness · 0 fans >>
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"Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy."

Dahlberg, Edward · Madness · 0 fans >>
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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."

Dali, Salvador · Madness · 3 fans >>
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"In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices."

Delillo, Don · Madness · 0 fans >>
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"Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --"

Dickinson, Emily · Madness · 2 fans >>
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