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Tag: insanity, sanity

Kelley Armstrong

If I was crazy, would I know it? That’s what being crazy was, wasn’t it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

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Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

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Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness – in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

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Henry Ward Beecher

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.”Henry Ward Beecher

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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

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Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren’t? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

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Edgar Allan Poe

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded…

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The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

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One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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Edgar Allan Poe

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.

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