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"The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be."
"The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors."
"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."
"Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?"
"At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity."
"I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses."
"Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am."
"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought."
"Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand."
"Collective madness is called sanity."
"Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing."
"Sanity - a trick of agreement"
"Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time."
"Sanity is not statistical."
"Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?"
"My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you"
"You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity."
"Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology."
"You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity."
"I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo."
