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William Golding

Worse than madness. Sanity.

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In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye.

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To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory.

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Michael R. Fletcher

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. – AKIRA KUROSAWA

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G.K. Chesterton

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist’s world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane.

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How do you stand it?” she said.”Stand what?””All… this.” Ella threw out her arm. “Does it not make you mad?”Clem glanced up. ‘Much madness is divinest sense,’ She said, and gave a small laugh. “There are plenty of mad women in here. I’m not sure I’m one of them though.” She shrugged. “You’ll get used to it.

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Machado de Assis

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.

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Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.

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George Santayana

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

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