Beth Revis Quotes
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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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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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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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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
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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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To remember everything is a form of madness.
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Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.
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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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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
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I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
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Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.
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If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?
