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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. - Alle

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. – Allen Ginsberg

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So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic. – Allen Ginsberg

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Mental Illness
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Allen Ginsberg
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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine,
jiggling your knees blankly in the rain.
When it snows in your nose
you catch cold in your brain. – Allen Ginsberg

Category:
Drugs
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Allen Ginsberg
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Madness
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. – Salvador Dali

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The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. – Hermann Broch

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Madness

Its a question to ask ourselves if were not mad. But who are the madmen, in Gods name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me? – Victor Serge

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Madness

Much Madness is divinest Sense — to a discerning Eye — much Sense — the starkest Madness — – Emily Dickinson

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We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory. – Evelyn Loeb

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Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. – Eric Hoffer

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