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• And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

  Rachel Vincent

  Crazy, Real, Temporary Insanity

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.159, MIRA

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• There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

  John Dryden

  Depression, Mad, Mental Illness

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• If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

  Suzanne Collins

  Temporary Insanity, People, Berries

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Names, Problem, Realizing

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• There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Way, Form

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

  Glen Cook

  Destiny, Shadow, World

  "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.

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• I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Insane, Switzerland, Doe

  Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub

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• Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

  Charles Bukowski

  Norm, Relative

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• There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

  Alethea Kontis

  Taken, Fighting, Men

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• "A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

  George Orwell

  Crazy, Minorities, Definitions

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• Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

  Patty Duke

  Inspiration, Mental Health, Mental Illness

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.214, Bantam

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• Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

  David Bowie

  Suicide, Self Harm, Razors

  Song: Young Americans

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• Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Discipline, Perfect, Achievement

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• Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Swim, Insane

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.129, Penguin

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• Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Self, Energy, States

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• Religion is insanity by consensus.

  Bill Maher

  Religion, Atheism, Consensus

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• One thing is certain: you can never become anything other than yourself, and unless you become yourself you cannot be happy. Happiness happens only when a rosebush grows roseflowers; when it flowers, when it has its own individuality. You may be a rosebush and trying to flower as lotus flower - that is creating insanity. Erase the mind. And the way to erase it is not by fight: the way to erase it is just to become aware.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Fighting, Creating

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• Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness with existence - then creativity is healthy. But if it does not arise out of meditation, out of silence and peace and understanding and love, then there is a danger. It may be arising out of your confused mind. It may be arising out of your insanity.

  Rajneesh

  Confused, Creativity, Two

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• Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Genius, Form

  "Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.

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• There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

  Megan Gallagher

  Differences, Sanity, Bigs

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• My passion for fashion borders on insanity.

  Isabella Blow

  Fashion, Passion, Borders

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• As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Government, Liberty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Eye, Thinking

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

  Sarah Kane

  Beautiful, Lying, Embrace

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.229, A&C Black

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• Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.

  Andrea Gibson

  People

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.58, SCB Distributors

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