"The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy."

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Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

— William Shakespeare