It is as absurd to say that [due to motherhood] all women shall be denied the suffrage, as it would be to deny all men the suffrag...e, because some are liable, periodically, to inflammatory rheumatism, delirium tremens, or financial failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the ...only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obese is ... in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. H...e no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here ex...cept mustaches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She knew that Marcel needed her and that she needed this need, that it kept her alive night and day; especially at night when he d...id not want to be alone, or to age or to die, with that stubborn look he had, and that she sometimes recognized on other men's faces, the only look common to all the madmen hidden behind airs of reason, until the delirium rises and throws them, desperate, to a woman's body to bury, without desire, the frightening things that solitude and night have shown them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going i...nto delirium in front of them. To hell with them!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In spite of the convenient textbook criteria that specialists set forth, the distinction between the madman and the jealous man is... a difficult one. The madman, like the man in love, the jealous man, or the man prey to any overwhelming passion, is a "patient," that is, a passive agent in the grip of a force that seems to be outside himself. Madman and passionate man are both tossed in piteous agitation, immersed in delirium, or plunged into unwholesome reveries. Both derive the greatest harm from an inalterable incapacity to exert self-control. We know too little of the organic determinants of pathologic mental states, but I would wager that when these become clarified, the disturbance will be shown to be the same in paranoia and in the fits of jealousy. Where does jealousy end and paranoia begin?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child.... Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »