Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded..
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.
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Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It's undignified.
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To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (The Medusa)
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -Ursula K. Le Guin, author (b. 1929)
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If I was crazy, would I know it? That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.
Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.
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I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.
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Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!
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Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
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The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.
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I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
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Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.
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If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
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When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
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People are all crazy.. But the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.
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People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)
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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
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Gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
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