Who said “There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head,…”?

“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”

“You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.”

“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”

“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”

“Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.”

“It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.”

“So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.”

“When we speak the word ''life,'' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”