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"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."
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"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."
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"Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though."
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"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
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"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."
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"Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason."
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"Though this be madness yet there is method in 't."
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"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
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"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
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"We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind."Oh, no! You think so?"Yes."But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time."Not Nobby," said Vimes testily. "Whatever he might do to a dragon, I doubt if he'd make it explode. There's stranger people in this world than Corporal Nobbs, my lad."Carrot's expression slid into a rictus of intrigued horror."Gosh," he said."
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"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."
Mortality

"Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement."
Art

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
History

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
History

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
People

"Be happy without picking flaws."
Happiness

"Right is just and true."
Justice

"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
God

"For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water."
Philosophy

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."
Life
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