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«There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him»
«I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.»
«Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.»
Author: Emile M. Cioran | Keywords: madman, safer, talks
«Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!»
«A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Men | Keywords: lock, madman, of sound mind
«Only the madman is absolutely sure»
Author: Robert Anton Wilson (Author) | Keywords: madman
«The tiny madman in his padded cell.»
«One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.»
«Only a madman would give good for evil»
Author: Euripides | About: Evil | Keywords: madman
«For if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died.»

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