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Quote by Herman Melville
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ach

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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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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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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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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