"Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."

Madness, Social, Humanity, Truth

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"Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."

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"Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Madness breeds madness."

Dan Brown, American Author

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"I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Madness, Judgment, Honor, Walking

"I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out."

John Glover, American Actor

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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."

John Russell, American Actor

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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 soordinary that the whippers are in love too."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Madness, Love, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

"Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

Spiritual

"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."

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"It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men."

Strength

"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

Cause

"If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how."

Philosophy

"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

Writing

"How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy."

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"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

Truth

"Every past is worth condemning."

History

"The voice of beauty speaks softly, it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls."

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