We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.
– Michael Grant
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- Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. – Galileo Galilei
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- People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind. – Eliza Granville
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- Fate and character are different names for the same idea. – Hermann Hesse
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- Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw. – Mark Lawrence
- Lovers and madmen have such seething brainsSuch shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends. – William Shakespeare
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- You don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky. – Luigi Pirandello
- Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence. – Ayn Rand
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- When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness. – George Ivanovic
- Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off. – Rohinton Mistry
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- Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. – GK Chesterton
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- You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else – he never dares cut the rope and be free. – Nikos Kazantzakis
- There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood. – Stephen King
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- Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up. – Lynne Truss
- Behind those happy eyes, you hide a mind that is terribly chaotic and that’s what makes you, so beautiful. – Akshay Vasu
- Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city. – Nathan Reese Maher
- But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through! – Jean Lorrain