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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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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. – Oliver W. Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

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Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: “Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?” – Madame Swetchine

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