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But those who are at large, are they not really, thanks to God, mad too? Are there not mild madnesses, which not only permit us to mix with our neighbours without danger to society, but which rather enable us to do so, for by means of them we are able to attribute a meaning and finality to life and society themselves?
"War can never be anything but cruel," he answered gravely. "God help the people over whose lands it sweeps. Devastation is often the least of the horrors marching in its train." "Why must war be?" she asked him, in intelligent rebellion against that most monstrous and infamous of all human madnesses.
He had known enchantments and madnesses before, and had torn himself away. Had he softened with the years? he questioned himself. Or was this a profounder madness than he had experienced? This meant the violation of dear things things so dear, so jealously cherished and guarded in his secret life, that never yet had they suffered violation. And still he did not tear himself away.
Lady Sellingworth did not miss it. "I haven't made up my mind," she said. "But he fascinates me." And at that moment Lady Sellingworth knew she was speaking the truth. She remembered her own madnesses, sunk away in the past, but still present to her, gripped between the tentacles of memory. Beryl, too, was then capable of the great follies which often exist side by side with great vanity.
But I do not know what so-called philosophers, in order to answer Descartes' chimera, leaped into the opposite chimera; they gave liberally of pure spirit to the toads and the insects. Between these two madnesses, the one refusing feeling to the organs of feeling, the other lodging a pure spirit in a bug, somebody thought of a middle path. It was instinct. And what is instinct?
"But delusive ideas, sir, are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited: the world, in the eye of a philosopher, may be said to be a large madhouse." "It is true," answered Harley, "the passions of men are temporary madnesses; and sometimes very fatal in their effects. From Macedonia's madman to the Swede."
"Yes, something of the sort did occur in Dun Vlechlan." "And, as I well know, you have by your conduct of affairs upon Vraidex duly disconcerted me, who am the power of darkness " "Ah! ah! you, Miramon, are then the power of darkness!" "I control all dreams and madnesses, Dom Manuel; and these are the main powers of darkness." Manuel seemed dubious, but he only said: "Well, let us get on!
I felt as if I were on the brink of two madnesses the madness of breaking my marriage vows and the madness of breaking the heart of the man who loved me. "Oh, what can I do?" I asked myself again. I wanted him to go; I wanted him to stay; I did not know what I wanted.
The best subjects are those who pretend to understand the scientific meaning of the operation, or the utterly indifferent, who never think about it at all, are quite surprised to be suddenly presented with tobacco, and go home, shaking their heads over the many queer madnesses of white men. I took as many photographs as possible, and my pictures made quite a sensation.
Suits Cleaned and Pressed in One Hour." And then she went out into 7 A.M. Broadway, all swept clean and caroling with the song of the car gong and the whistlings of steamboats. A line-up of theaters, early-morning mausoleums of last night's madnesses, first met her eye in the clean light. One of them was violently postered with lithographs of Minnie Maddern Fiske. A three-sheet proclaimed Melba.
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