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“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race o...”
“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”
“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.”
“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”
“To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in...”
“It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.”
“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”
“Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house”
“Madness exist in the mind.”
“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”
“Todays milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The moder...”
“The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables.Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a dayI would be grounded, rooted.Said my head would not keep flying awayto where the darkness lives.The ...”
“She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.”
“And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regar...”
“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness. Then: Id arrange flowers, all day long, Id paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity ...”
“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”
“I closed my eyes, adding dark to dark, and the wanting unfurled like the sails of a phantom ship. This could be my universe. This nowhere world, circumscribed by skin and breath, where nothing matt...”
“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed”
“He had discovered that it was easier far easier than any one could have supposed to make oneself mad, but like all magic it was full of obstacles and frustrations. Even if he succeeded in summoni...”
“We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.”
