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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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"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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"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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"To take away a man's sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants."
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"With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind."
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"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."
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"Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting."
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"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."
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"I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance."
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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Man

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
Love

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
Home

"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
Thought

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Education

"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
Time

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
Science

"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
People

"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
Society
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