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"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."
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"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."
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"There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood."
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"Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though."
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"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
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"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."
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"Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason."
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"Though this be madness yet there is method in 't."
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"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
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"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
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"Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
Life

"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question."
Philosophy

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
Family

"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
Environment

"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
Art

"I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning, living, pushing YOURself, changing YOURself, changing YOUR world. YOU're doing things YOU've never done before, n MORE importantly, YOU're doing something."
Growth

"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."
Death

"Black as night, sweet as sin."
Emotion

"And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him."
Social

"He couldn't see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn't. And there was never an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
Life
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