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Quote by George Santayana
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream contr

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled. – George Santayana

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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana

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A lunatic may be – Edgar Allan Poe

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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys ones equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established. – Georges Bataille

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There is always a madness in love. There is however also always a reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. – George Bernard Shaw

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