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"You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction."
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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."

"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."

"Sometimes I think you're the only thing keeping me sane."

"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."

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

"If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity."

"With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind."
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"Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all."

"It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!"

"In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!"

"How can you tell a man there's nothing to do? I can't imagine a situation in which there could ever be nothing to do! Do it for mankind and don't worry about the rest. There's so much to do that a lifetime won't be enough, if you look around attentively."

"Try and set yourself the task not to think of a white bear, and the cursed thing comes to mind every minute."

"A long while yet will you keep that great mother's grief. But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and your bitter tears will be only tears of tender sorrow that purifies the heart and delivers it from sin."

"Brother, I'm not depressed and haven't lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter " this is what life is, herein lies its task."

"There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious..."
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