Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen —; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.
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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841).Edgar Allan Poe
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We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal.
Nikos Kazantzakis
I would like to leave behind me the conviction that if we maintain a certain amount of caution and organization we deserve victory[....] You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. [...] We must dare to invent the future.
1985Thomas Sankara
There is a pleasure sure
In being mad which none but madmen know.John Dryden
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
Paolo Veronese
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