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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."
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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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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."
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"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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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
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"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
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"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."
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"Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas."
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"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."
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"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."
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"We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves."
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"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."
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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."
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"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
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