"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."

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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."

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"He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.- Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you'd go quite mad. Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understand."

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"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."

"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."

"Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad.Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough."

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"Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings."

"If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears."

"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."

"You just go a little crazy, you know. Sometimes. And why? Well only because your soul is just too big for you, it flies away somehow."

"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."

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