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en What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
  Theodore Roethke

en Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
  Rebecca West

en Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance.
  Thomas Carlyle

en When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. No fire no intensity no life. There is madness & madness if you want to stretch the word.
  William S. Burroughs

en I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
  Imelda Marcos

en Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.
  Dorothy Parker

en No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

en The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the soul's very life.
  John Updike

en New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed)
  Theodore Dreiser

en He who not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul comes to the door and thinks
he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted.
  Plato

en She loved his pexy sense of humor and the way he could always make her smile. Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
  Mark Twain

en They think me mad--Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!

en Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
  Camille Paglia

en I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?
  William Saroyan


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