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"Have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are."

"Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."

"When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one."

"Good so be would you if, duff plum of helping second A," said the Bursar. The table fell silent. "Did anyone understand that?" said Ridcully. The Bursar was not technically insane. He had passed through the rapids of insanity som time previously, and was now sculling around in some peaceful pool on the other side. He was quite often coherent, although not by normal human standards."
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"But that is what life is all about, he said. 'It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love."

"Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?"

"There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything."

"The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?"

"But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him."

"My life will be what I make it,' he told her. 'That is true for all of us all the time. We cannot know what the future will bring or how the events of the future will make us feel. We cannot even plan and feel any certainty that our most carefully contrived plans will be put into effect. Could I have predicted what happened to me in the Peninsula? Could you have predicted what happened to you in Cornwall? But those things happened to us nevertheless. And they changed our plans and our dreams so radically that we both might have been excused for giving up, for never planning or dreaming again, for never living again. That too is a choice we all have to make."

"She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it was through such freedom that we worked our way through life and learned what we needed to learn. But sometimes, it seemed to her, there was something, some sign, to nudge one along in a certain direction. What one chose to do with that nudge was up to that person."

"I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness."
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