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• Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

  Billy Corgan

  Fashion, Sadness, Bullshit

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• Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

  C. S. Lewis

  Broken, Necks, Ends

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• It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Women, Secret Love, Doe

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.134, Penguin

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• First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

  J. K. Rowling

  Talking, Firsts

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• Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

  Edward Abbey

  Solitude, Depth, Wilderness

  "The Monkey Wrench Gang". Book by Edward Abbey, August 1, 1975.

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• Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Creation

  "Fire". Diary entries, October 18, 1936.

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• ...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

  Laurie R. King

  Turmoil, Centre, Survived

  Laurie R. King (2014). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.38, Macmillan

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• They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

  Khalil Gibran

  Money, Thinking, Mad

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mad, Rich Poor, Poverty

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.307, Canongate Books

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• you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Winter, Cities

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• And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Brain

  'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)

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• Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

  Edith Sitwell

  Believe, Pride, Men

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.114, A&C Black

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• I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

  Herman Melville

  Calm

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.168, Northwestern University Press

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• We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

  Albert Einstein

  Dance, Dream, Art

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• In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Doe, Mirth

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• Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker

  Grant Morrison

  Enough

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• Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

  Michael Gruber

  Teacher, People, Owing

  Michael Gruber (2009). “The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

  Anthony Burgess

  Serious, Said, Torture

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Responsibility, Tasks

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• Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

  Yann Martel

  Misery, Company

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.269, Vintage Canada

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• I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Art, Worry

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• The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.

  Thomas Nagel

  Passion, World, Maelstrom

  Thomas Nagel (2010). “Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008”, p.34, Oxford University Press

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• Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

  Christopher Paolini

  Shapes, Who We Are, Guides

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1451, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

  E. Lockhart

  Orange, Sparkle, Mental Health

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.31, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• To remember everything is a form of madness.

  Brian Friel

  Remembers Everything, Remember, Form

  Brian Friel, Csilla Bertha, Mária Kurdi (2006). “Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: "the Work Has Value"”, p.215, Peter Lang

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