Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
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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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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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I remember a West Coast run with Madness and another with Adam Ant, later a long run through the Midwest with Berlin and a few gigs with Eurythmics.
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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.
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I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.
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To remember everything is a form of madness.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
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What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
