“I think power is a sickness and governing is a folly for madmen.”
Robert Silverberg book Lord Valentine's Castle
Book 1, Chapter 15 (p. 113)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)
“To think is to be sick…”
— Djuna Barnes, book Nightwood
Source: Nightwood
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