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• Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek) You really do suffer from insanity, don’t you? (Thanatos) Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Suffering, Lasts

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• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Lying, Passion

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.527, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Form, True Faith

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch (1995). “The Sacrifice: The First Book of the Fey”, Spectra

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• That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Madness, Awareness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.100, Penguin

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• The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dangerous World, Practice, Matter

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

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• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Hurt, Men, Mad

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.”, Library of Alexandria

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• Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.

  Deb Caletti

  Creepy, Shadow, Genius

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

  Louis de Bernieres

  Childhood, Expected, Knows

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.74, Vintage

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• ...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

  Anne Lamott

  Discovery, Self, Parent

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Crazy, People, Available

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• If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)

  Brigham Young

  Serenity, Mind, Devil

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• My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Fighting

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

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• There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

  Dan Brown

  Genius, Lines, Fine

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.179, Random House

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• You're kidding," Shane said. "Do you think I want to visit Crazy McTeeth in his lair of insanity?" "No," Claire said, "but I'm pretty sure you won't like it if I go alone when I just kind of promised to be with you. So...?" "Right. I've been missing Nutty McFang anyway." "Stop making up names for him." "What about Count Crackula?" "Just stop.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Thinking, Names

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.54, Penguin

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• The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

  Randy Pausch

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Art, Majority Rule

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

  Jon Ronson

  Impact, What If, Way

  Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.448, Pan Macmillan

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• Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

  Guillermo del Toro

  Insane, Doe, Add

  Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (2011). “The Night Eternal”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Acting, Matter, Stuff

  FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Jan 21, 2015

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• I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

  John Green

  Circles, Drawing, Boredom

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.129, A&C Black

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• Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Reality, Fiction

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• Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Eye, Beholder, Folly

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• Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker

  Darynda Jones

  Genius, Bumper Sticker, Limitation

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• Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

  Lisi Harrison

  Dream, Insane, Lines

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.49, Hachette UK

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