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Madman Quotes by Antonin Artaud
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to…
- And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than…
- The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be…
- [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea…
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- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. — Emile M. Cioran
- ...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out… — Harry Browne
- For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on… — Adolf Hitler
- The poet is a madman lost in adventure. — Paul Verlaine
- Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. — Kenneth E. Boulding
- Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick… — Unknown Author
- We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. — Antisthenes
- The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion. — Joe R. Lansdale
- Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like… — Miguel de Cervantes
- I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa