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"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."

"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 in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."

"To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion."

"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."

"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."
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