"Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer."

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Source : Marguerite Duras (2015). “Hiroshima Mon Amour”, p.34, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Marguerite Duras

#Madness Quotes

“It boils down to how much do you really believe and want it.”
“All I knew about shot putting was that my brother could do 44 feet ... I decided I wanted to beat him. ... So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.”

Source : "Film Star and Olympian Herman Brix" by Adam Bernstein, www.washingtonpost.com. February 28, 2007.
“It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.”
“I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.19, Crown
“It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.”
“Because you don't belong with him! I tried to tell you that, but you wouldn't listen, and I thought if you understood that he'd be better off without you, you'd break up with him for his own good. So I...exaggerated how easy it'd be for him to get over you, with Sabine there to step in. But I underestimated how incredibly stubborn you are" "I prefer to think of it as dedication..." I mumbled.”
“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?”
“The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.”

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