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“Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” George Orwell, 1984
“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
“It is not easy to become sane.” George Orwell, 1984
“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
“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
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
“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
“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
“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
“Dispute not with her,—she is lunatic.” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“The way it all comes down these days, it’s some kind of miracle if you’re not insane.” Henry Rollins, Iron and the Soul
“Mothers are all slightly insane.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“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
“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“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
“LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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