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  You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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• As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

  Anthony Green

  Mean, Self, Focus

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

  N. F. Simpson

  Alcohol, Illusion, Deficiency

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• Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.

  Mary McMullen

  Matter, Sometimes, Ifs

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• We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

  Bill W.

  Believe, Alcohol, 12 Step

  Alcoholics Anonymous (1939). The first two of the "Twelve Steps" that form the program of Alcoholics Anonymous to combat alcoholism.

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Friendship, Depressing

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

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  It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

  Rose Kennedy

  Time, Pain, Get Well

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• All I want to be is normally insane.

  Marlon Brando

  Insane, Want

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• The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

  John Cleese

  Insane, Here And There, World

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• Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

  Joyce Appleby

  Remember, Forget, Well Being

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• KILL ME!" And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. "Please, Tommy. Please." With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.

  James Dashner

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure”, p.191, Chicken House

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• If I was any more pleased with you, I would lose what little remains of my sanity.

  Sylvia Day

  Littles, Remains, Ifs

  Sylvia Day (2012). “Seven Years to Sin”, p.144, Penguin UK

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• I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

  H. G. Wells

  World, Lost, Lost Faith

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.72, 谷月社

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• Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

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• I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

  Luis Miguel

  Distance, Long Distance, Long

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• A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Moral, Streams

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• the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

  Marshall McLuhan

  People, Proof, Institutions

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

  John Dryden

  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

  Norman Mailer

  Secret, Mind, Literature

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.153, Random House

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• I'm hoping for a return to at least partial sanity someday, but I'm not optimistic.

  David Rosenfelt

  Optimistic, Return, Someday

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Hair, Blood

  "American Psycho". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Art is a guarantee of sanity.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Guarantees, Art Is

  Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1999). “Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000”, Actar-D

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• Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Laughing, Vodka

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.217, Penguin

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• Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

  Janet C. Long

  Depression, Crazy, Littles

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