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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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"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."
"Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment."
"Most really crazy people can only take reality in small doses."
"So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way."
"To take away a man's sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants."
"With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind."
"Your key hobbies need to be long country walks (get some fresh air in those lungs!), masturbation, and the revolution. Between those three, you should, in the long term, stay relatively sane."
"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."
"Sometimes I think you're the only thing keeping me sane."
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"The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets."
"What's with the serum?"I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything...Turn a massacre into a sex orgy..."Or a joke."Precisely. Arty type...No principles..."
"A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering."
"You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence."
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"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
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