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"I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact."
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"Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person."
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"So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way."
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"Daphne's thought in Nation: This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards."
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"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
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"I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact."
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"You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction."
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"To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory."
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"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."
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"Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is a rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it."
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."
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"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."
Happiness

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
Change

"The face of evil is always the face of total need."
Evil

"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."
Society

"A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering."
Identity

"Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out."
Control

"Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers."
Integrity

"I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time."
Love

"I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host."
Consciousness

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
Knowledge
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