“wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness”
Source: Clockwork Prince
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Cassandra Clare 2041
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As quoted in "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia" (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 75

Personality Lectures

From "Keep young and beautiful", interview by Bill Black, Sounds (19 November 1983).
In interviews etc., About himself and his work

2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Context: And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? -- now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.