"I am but mad north-north-west. When the..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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“Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.”
“Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.”
“In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”
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“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
“Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.”
“One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.”