Mania
Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.
Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.
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Mania Quotations
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore De Balzac
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Gustave Flaubert
The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.
Patty Duke
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Wilfred Owen
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Louis Aragon
Mania Translations
mania in French is manie
mania in German is Wahnsinn
mania in Italian is mania
mania in Swedish is vanvett, vurm, mani
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