Quote by Hermann Broch
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to adva

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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Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. – Hermann Broch

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Oceans
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Whats important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. – Hermann Broch

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alone
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Madness
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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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Madness

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! – George Bernard Shaw

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Madness

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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Madness

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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Madness

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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. – Charles Lamb

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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. – Søren Kierkegaard

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Theres nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. – Johann Sebastian Bach

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Practice