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• It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

  Robert Hughes

  Mean, Analysis, Painting

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• It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

  Edvard Munch

  Believe, Blue, Years

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• As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

  Frank Ocean

  Artist, Men, Killers

  "Frank Ocean says he'll 'choose sanity,' won't press charges in Chris Brown fight" By Denise Quan, Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2013.

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• Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

  Daniel Goleman

  Confusing, Unruly, Needed

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• Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Health, Independence

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Fighting, Exercise

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• One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

  Trent Reznor

  Compassion, Two, Greed

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• Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don’t trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.

  Gangaji

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

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• My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Insanity, Lines, Littles

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.618, The Floating Press

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• What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Men, Green World

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.8, Library of America

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• I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Children, Men

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• Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Information, Flow, Signals

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.66, Ronin Publishing

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• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ties, Insanity

  1876 Letters and Social Aims,'The Comic'.

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• The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Mean, Fighting, Gun

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• Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

  Winston Smith

  Truth, Mad, Political

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• I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Thinking, People, Return

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• Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Mad

  "The Raven and the Monkey's Paw: Classics of Horror and Suspense".

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• Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Passion, Men

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• and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sense Of Humor, Conviction, Agree

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

  Emily Dickinson

  Insane, World, Pardon

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• To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Life, Writing, Heart

  Mary Baker Eddy (1964). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.

  Christine Feehan

  Gun, Hands, Should Have

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• From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

  Dean Koontz

  Self, Mad, Doubt

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.81, Bantam

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• Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eye, Reality, Views

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