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“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
“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait waistcoats.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out . . . No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.” Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
“Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?” Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
“But I wrote because I couldn’t stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island.” H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau
“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.” George Orwell, 1984
“To be able to forget means sanity.” Jack London, The Star Rover
“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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