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• For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints,
  was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush...
  Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Grief, Heart, Self

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• For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

  Robert Musil

  Fire, Soul, Sparks

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

  Robert Bloch

  Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.102, The Overlook Press

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• How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

  Dan Simmons

  Memories, Mind, Lifetime

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Endymion”, p.72, Spectra

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• My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

  Julius Evola

  Principles, Revolution, Normal

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• Brenna was fixing some kind of a small computronic device when he found her in her quarters. “Judd,” she said, putting down her tools. “You can’t be here. The dissonance—” He interrupted her panicked words. “I need to ask you something important.” “What could be more important than your life?” She sounded close to tears. “Your life. If you die, I don’t know if I’d stay sane.” A simple truth.

  Nalini Singh

  Simple, Important, Tears

  Nalini Singh (2007). “Caressed By Ice”, p.303, Penguin

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• Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

  Clive Barker

  Grateful, Mad, Madness

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Jan 16, 2013

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• What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

  Norman Cousins

  Skills, People, Perspective

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• Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.

  Werner Herzog

  Stupid, Volcanoes, Film

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

  Homer

  Literature, Compare

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• Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

  Rebecca West

  Pain, Night, Mad

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.818, Open Road Media

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• No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

  Alan Watts

  Order, Bridges, Insane

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.84, New World Library

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• In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Understanding, Delusion

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

  Erich Fromm

  Errors, People, Facts

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Needs, Use

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

  Mark Thomas

  Believe, Mushrooms, Police

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• Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Men, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2676, Delphi Classics

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• The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

  J. G. Ballard

  Thinking, Views, Enlightenment

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• The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Ordinary, Normal

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

  Majora Carter

  Healthy, World, Want

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.

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• What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

  Nina Simone

  Knowing, Together

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• Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Order, Mad

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• I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, People, Survival

  "Raids on the Unspeakable".

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• Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Healthy, Lovable

  Nick Hornby (2005). “How to be Good”, p.214, Penguin UK

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• I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

  Joseph McCabe

  Rights, Years, Two

  Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

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