Hassan

“He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains: the form & not the quality of intelligence has been affected; the fruit has been bruised in the fall, but has preserved all its perfume & all the savor of its pulp, hardly too ripe.”
― Remy de Gourmont, The Book of Masks

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française