"Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?"
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"Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity"
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"Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it."
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"Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time."
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"Manic depression is a frustratin' mess."
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"You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity."
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"You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there."
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"We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity."
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"Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not."
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"Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it."
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"Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations."
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"I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years."
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"Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go."
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"There is a fine line between insanity and genius."
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"Insanity is a lack of proportion."
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"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."
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"Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same."
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"You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face."
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"He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively."
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"Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity."
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