“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Tag: madness
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“A mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.” — Lydia Davis, Liminal: Little Man
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“With madness, as with vomit, it is the passerby who receives the inconvenience.” — Joe Orton, The Erpingham Camp
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“And when there is the possibility of peace, a new fight erupts, based on an old complaint, and which some people call justice and others madness.” — Nuruddin Farah, Knots
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“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.” — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
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“Sanity is the madness of the greatest number.” — Clark Ashton Smith, “The Epigrams of Alastor“, The Dragon-Fly (October 1935)
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“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” — George Jean Nathan, House of Satan