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There is no sanity without compassion.

aphorism by Ramon Eder, translated by Dan Costinaş
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

quote by Edgar Allan Poe
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Sanity is a cozy lie.

quote by Susan Sontag
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Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

quote by John Russell
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What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers.

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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

quote by Oscar Wilde
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes in Don Quixote de la Mancha
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

quote by Doris Lessing
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Sanity is a madness put to good use.

quote by George Santayana
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Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

Alfred Korzybski in Science And Sanity
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