“I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.”
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
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Evening reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Ayrton Senna (1960–1994) Brazilian racing driver
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Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
Statement http://books.google.com/books?id=6swLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22What+the+country+needs+is+a+good+big+laugh%22+%22if+some+one+could+get+off+a+good+joke+every+ten+days+i+think+our+troubles+would+be+over%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage to Raymond Clapper http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/clapper-raymond.cfm (c. February 1931)
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor
Auguste Rodin in letter to Camille Claudel, as cited in: Nigel Cawthorne (1998) Sex Lives of the Great Artists. p. 68
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