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There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. — Michael Moorcock
The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a… — Robert A. Heinlein
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket. — Edgar Allan Poe
What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only,… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its… — Michel Foucault
He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges… — Lauren DeStefano
I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut… — C.S. Lewis
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. — Jean-Paul Sartre
In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will… — William L. Shirer
Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which… — Robert M. Pirsig
Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You… — Juliet Marillier
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen. — Pseudonymous Bosch
A patient, methodical sort of madman. The worst kind. — Cassandra Clare
[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… — Antonin Artaud
This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. — William Shakespeare
People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness,… — James A. Baldwin
Madmen always think it's the others who are mad. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I… — Rumi
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling… — Knut Hamsun
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the… — Rafael Sabatini
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons. — Vasily Grossman

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