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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."
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"Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs."
"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."
"To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion."
"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."
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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."
"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
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