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Letter "M" » madmen
«I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.»
«Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.»
Author: Georges Bataille
| Keywords:
give vent, madmen, overturn, overturned, overturning, prisons, rage, vent, vents, wander
«. . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.»
«Briefly leaving behind the molars and malocclusions to enter Yoknapatawpha County, the mythical realm of madmen and malingerers, drifters and grifters, funeral parties and lynch mobs.»
«Only madmen seize the storyWith coals of fire upon their tongue.»
«If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Pleasure
| Keywords:
available, delights, dictators, ecstasy, independence, madmen, solitary, The Dictators
«For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; The worst of madmen is a saint run mad»
«Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
conceit, Laws of nature, madmen, prig, prigs, quarter, sakes, the laws of nature, three-quarter
«Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
deserves, madmen, whip, whipping
«Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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apprehend, apprehended, apprehending, comprehends, cool, fantasies, madmen, seethe, seethed, seething, shaping
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