Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.
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Actually Night I, line 390 of Edward Young's Night Thoughts.William Wordsworth
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Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.
Edward Young
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,
Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.William Congreve
The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.
Fernando de Rojas
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.
Michel Foucault
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
Don DeLillo
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