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• Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

  Philip Larkin

  Affair, Poetry Is, Seeing

  "Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982". Book by Philip Larkin, 1984.

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• It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Fighting, Together

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.126, Vintage

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• In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Sleep, Giving

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• I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Kings, Princess

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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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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• Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Honesty, Pain, Humility

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.48, Modern Library

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• Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we take the time look closely, we might discover that God is using these normal activities to prepare us for future tasks, each duty pointing to His blessing in our lives.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Blessing, Routine, Looks

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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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• I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Interesting, Wish, Looks

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• The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction.

  Janet Frame

  Discovery, Tree, Brain

  Janet Frame (2010). “Towards Another Summer”, p.105, Counterpoint Press

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• Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.

  Brandon Mull

  Risk, Way, Causes

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• Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

  Emilie Autumn

  Enemy, Awareness

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• It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

  Nelson DeMille

  Scary, Moments, Temporary

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• I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Heroism, Adults

  "The Unfinished" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 9, 2009.

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• That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Insanity, Madness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.100, Penguin

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• Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?

  Rachel Caine

  Beach, Adventure, Morganville Vampires

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus”, p.57, Allison & Busby

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• For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

  Sebastian Barry

  Secret, Want, Fortune

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

  Frederick Franck

  Inspirational, Courage, Real

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• The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

  Tom Harkin

  Country, Gambling, President

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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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