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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
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"I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results."

"You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile."

"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."

"You're insane."It'll work."Which does not alter the fact that you are insane."

"The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments."

"We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind."

"Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: 'Soon all the humans will be dead,' she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. 'And then Opal will be loved.'And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead."
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"And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe in one unceasing radiation of gloom."

"The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame."

"Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censerSwung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor."Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee--Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"Quothe the Raven, "Nevermore."

"How had I deserved to be so blessed by such confessions? -how had I deserved to be so cursed with the removal of my beloved in the hour of her making them, But upon this subject I cannot bear to dilate."
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