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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."
"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."
"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."
"We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind."
"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."
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"Let him talk," said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle."
"That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged."
"The teeth!-the teeth!-they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development."
"If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?"
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."
"If Pierre Bon-Bon had his failings--and what great man has not a thousand?--if Pierre Bon-Bon, I say, had his failings, they were failings of very little importance--faults indeed which, in other tempers, have often been looked upon rather in the light of virtues."
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