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“The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called...”
“She disappeared; her voice, her laughter and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again.”
“So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.”
“Men who leave their mark on the world are very often those who, being gifted and full of nervous power, are at the same time haunted and driven by a dominant idea, and are therefore within a measur...”
“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?”
“What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.”
“I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree.”
“Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.”
“But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.”
“But what defines insanity , really !? Is it your mind or the mind of the person making the judgment !? Because all of us , no matter who you are , can go insane sometimes ! There are times when we ...”
“Barbee had wondered about insanity, sometimes with a brooding dread - for his own father, whom he scarcely remembered, had died in the forbidding stone pile of the state asylum. He had vaguely supp...”
“Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most...”
“And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indicati...”
“She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics”
“This is insanity!""No, this is scholarship!”
“A strong and brave heart isnt enough. A true heart, no matter how much the truth hurts, is the strongest of all.”
“it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.”
“He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.”
“You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction.”
“Insanity is a disease, and it is highly contagious.”
