Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.
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Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
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Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
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The extreme limit of wisdomthat is what the public calls madness.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance, fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hel
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Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.)
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War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us 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.
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Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.
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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
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You call it madness, but I call it love.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. - Epistulae ad Lucilium
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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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