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“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled ...”
“Nobody's sane above the law.”
“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.”
“I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.”
“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
“It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.”
“And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.”
“He was walking around in circles, the smell of the old furniture suddenly very distinct. There was a newspaper in his hand and he started reading it, paying particular attention to the headlines wh...”
“Hasn’t everyone taken a nervous breakdown at some point? Maybe I suffered a nervous breakthrough. I don’t know what tothink. It echoes inside your skull.”
“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
“Insanity is catching.”
“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
“Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
“There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”
“To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their delicate vision of that other time, madmen will justif...”
“There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. Th...”
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone ...”
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”
“I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where ...”
