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“Loving without losing yourself is madness. Loving to lose yourself is merit.”

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“Now it is all clear, and as plain as a pikestaff. Formerly—I don't know why—everything seemed veiled in a kind of mist. That is, I believe, because people think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.”

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Book:Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Source: Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

“To love; not just love but the way it becomes your whole existence you got to have some madness in your blood.”

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“You see, I'm not mad, I suffer from depression. It's not like ordinary misery. It's like dying of boredom. It's black.”

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“Musing one: “A little dip into the waters of madness from time to time is a good thing I think, it helps you keep life in perspective....”

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Book:Poetic Exorcisms

Source: Poetic Exorcisms

“You need only one taste of madness, and the timeless journey can be spent in thoughts that follow behind like the fiery tail of a comet. And this glowing chaos, the soul will carry under the linings of its peace, to weave beautiful memories with.”

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Book:You Make Me Spill My Ink

Source: You Make Me Spill My Ink

“Most success is built on hard work and madness.”

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Book:Follow Your Bliss: How to Start Living the Life of Your Dreams

Source: Follow Your Bliss: How to Start Living the Life of Your Dreams

“Excess of grief may bring on quite as fine a bout of madness an an excess of any thing else. Truth to tell, I was not quite myself for a time. Truth to tell, I was a little wild.”

Book:Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Jung’s image of the stage of becoming a tree is well illustrated here. The little man is stuck. In the West he would be taken away, perhaps, to an institution and cured back (shock treatment, etc.) to society. Here, he is permitted to sit it out and perhaps go through to Buddhahood—perhaps, on the other hand, simply to remain stuck, as a living symbol of spiritual effort. There are no hospitals, there are no asylums. The lepers sit out on the streets and so do the madmen. But some of the madmen can break through, and these breakthroughs are giving India something that the West really lacks.”

Book:Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals-India

Source: Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals-India

“Livet består av en del galskap, og en del visdom; den som bare skriver ærbødig og konvensjonelt, utelater mer enn halvparten.”

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Book:The Complete Essays

Source: The Complete Essays

“It was while I was seated in an easy-chair in the street the following evening, smoking, watching the combustion of this structure, that something was suddenly born in me, something out of Hell, and I smiled a smile that never man smiled. And I said: 'I will burn: I will return to London...”

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Book:The Purple Cloud

Source: The Purple Cloud