"I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God."

Madness, God, Family, Truth

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"I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God."

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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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Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion."

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"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

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Mystery

"It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God."

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Behavior

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