"I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities."
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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."
"I feel strangely normal."
"Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery."
"One thing is to have the protection of human rights for homosexuals and quite something else is this promotion of indecency. It would be immoral and unethical to deny the homosexuals their human rights. But it is also immoral to consider disorders as normal. None of these deviances are biological. They are acquired by fantasizing about them."
"Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types."
"I hope it never becomes normal to feel scrutinized."
"From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition."
"Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came."
"I like my friends because they make me feel normal, even though I'm not."
"Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity."
"The dating process is not normal for me."
"love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark"
"You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment."
"Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming."
"In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad."
"Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process."
"They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them."
"I'm just living a normal life - a regular life, as people would call it. I'm enjoying it."
"I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't."