“We call reality
to madness that remains
and madness to reality that vanishes”
La ciudad de la Luna (2009)
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Uruguayan-American writer 1969Related quotes
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Context: Let us speak of our madness. We are always being called mad. If we are mad — we and our brothers in America who are walking hand in hand with us in the vanguard of progress — at least we are mad in company with most of our great predecessors and all the most intelligent foreigners. Beethoven, Schumann, and Wagner, Shelley, Blake, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth were all mad in turn. We shall be proud to join them in the Asylum to which they are now consigned.
Summer, Highland Falls.
Song lyrics, Turnstiles (1976)
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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 9
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)