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 | "A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under
lock and key." | |
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Paul Valery
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| "A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the
rope and be free." | |
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Nikos Kazantzakis
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| "Every man has a sane spot somewhere." | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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| "He"s a fruit." | |
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Proverb
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| "I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly, I know a
hawk from a handsaw." | |
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Sheakespeare
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| "In a mad world, only the mad are sane." | |
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Akiro Kurosawa
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| "Insanity ? a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane
world." | |
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R. D. Lang
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| "Insanity destroys reason, but not wit." | |
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Nathaniel Emmons
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| "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." | |
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Cary Grant
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| "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "Neurotics build castles in the sky, and psychotics live in them, and
people like me just pretend to live in them." | |
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Andvari Huntress
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| "Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy." | |
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Janet Long
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| "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a
failure." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my
teacher was in my class for five years." | |
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George Burns
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| "That is the truest sign of insanity ? insane people are always sure
that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit
that they arecrazy." | |
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Nora Ephron
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| "The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is
a power behind the eye." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by
success." | |
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Ian Fleming
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| "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is
suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three
best friends. If they"re okay, then it"s you." | |
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Rita Mae Brown
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| "The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the
absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum." | |
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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| "There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen
know." | |
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John Dryden
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| "Though this be madness, yet there is method in"t. Will you walk out
of the air, my lord?" | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "What did they seek from him? What were they after? He had never
asked anything of them; it was they who wished to hold him, they who
pressed a claim on him - and they seemed to have the form of affection,
but it was a form which he found harder to endure than any sort of hatred.
He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They
professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the
things for which he could wish to be loved. He wondered what response they
could hope to obtain from him in such manner - if his response was what
they wanted. And it was, he thought; else why those constant complaints,
those unceasing accusations about his indifference? Why that chronic air
of suspicion, as if they were waiting to be hurt? He had never had a
desire to hurt them, but he had always felt their defensive, reproachful
expectation; they seemed wounded by anything he said, it was not a matter
of his words or actions, it was almost . . . almost as if they were
wounded by the mere fact of his being. Don"t start imagining the insane -
he told himself severely, struggling to face the riddle with the strictest
of his ruthless sense of justice. He could not condemn them without
understanding; and he could not understand." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" | |
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Ursula K. LeGuin
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| "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and
life stands explained." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "You never know what makes some people tick until they begin to
unwind." | |
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