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Terry Pratchett

"Daphne's thought in Nation: This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards."

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"Daphne's thought in Nation: This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards."

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"I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact."

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"To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while."

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"Your key hobbies need to be long country walks (get some fresh air in those lungs!), masturbation, and the revolution. Between those three, you should, in the long term, stay relatively sane."

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"You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity."

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"Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment."

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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

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"To take away a man's sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants."

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"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."

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