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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a grea

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then its you. – Rita Mae Brown

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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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Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

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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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For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all. – Kahlil Gibran

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The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President. – Harry S. Truman

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In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. – Mark Twain

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