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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

Other quotes by Allen Ginsberg

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

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Drugs
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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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Madness
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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

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. – Salvador Dali

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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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Madness

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? – Isadora Duncan

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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. – Nelson Mandela

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Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. – Harry A. Overstreet

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Illusion

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on Madden. – Billie Joe Armstrong

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I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer. – Bayazid Al-Bistami

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Desires