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“Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”
John Russell
“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”
Aristotle
“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
Allen Ginsberg
“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness”
Christopher Morley
“O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.”
William Shakespeare
“Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages is it the rule”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.”
Irving Layton
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
Seneca
“There is no genius free from some tincture of madness”
“To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire--It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.”
Edgar Lee Masters