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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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"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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"Creators almost always go mad."
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"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
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"I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God."
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"We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that."
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"Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs."
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"I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method."
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"There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!"
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"We're not mad," he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority."
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"The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip."
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"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat."
Friendship
"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."
Life
"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
Man
"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."
Life
"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe."
War
"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"
Man
"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."
Control
"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"
Truth
"There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy."
Society
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
Work
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