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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffe

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire

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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. – Charles Baudelaire

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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. – Ezra Pound

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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. – Edward Dahlberg

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O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad. – William Shakespeare

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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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