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“Dispute not with her,—she is lunatic.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” - 1858

“Mothers are all slightly insane.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“It is not easy to become sane.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“Our day in Toulouse with the Airbus A380 has since brought my mind back time and time again to Howard Hughes and that film and has made me realise just how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.” Richard Branson, “Losing My Virginity” - 1998

“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 punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.” William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” - 1623

“stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“She didn’t quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.” Neil Gaiman, “Neverwhere” - 1996

“Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” - 1843

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