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Letter "M" » madman
«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 the strangulation that life had prepared for him»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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delirium, frightened, madman, misunderstood, prepared, shining, solution, strangulation
«I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.»
Author: Dylan Thomas
(Playwright, Poet, Writer)
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Personality
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beast, enquiry, In Me, madman, self-expression, subjugation, upheaval, upheavals
«Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.»
«Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!»
«A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.»
«Only the madman is absolutely sure»
«The tiny madman in his padded cell.»
«One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
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abroad, a hundred thousand, common cause, fanatics, hundred thousand, in common, madman, sharing, tangible, Thousand and, thousand million, tremble, victories
«For if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died.»
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