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“If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you'll find I've completely gone insane!”

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“Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have a primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each others' sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other. Women have often felt insane when cleaving to the truth of our experience. Our future depends on the sanity of each of us, and we have a profound stake, beyond the personal, in the project of describing our reality as candidly and fully as we can to each other.”

Truth Feminism Madness Truth Telling

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978

“You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.”

Wise Madness Illogical Morpheus Aliceinwonderland

Book:Splintered

Source: Splintered

“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. . . .”

Death Stars Madness Poetic Infinity Shadows Daemons

Author:H.P. Lovecraft

“April 43rd 2000 Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last. That king is me. I only discovered this today. Frankly, it all came to me in a flash.”

Sad Madness Insanity Amusing

Book:Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Source: Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. - Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" On Tranquility of Mind, sct. 17, subsct. 10.)”

Author:Aristotle

“That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand.”

Depression Madness Mental Illness

Book:Her Fearful Symmetry

Source: Her Fearful Symmetry

“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.”

Madness Mad Tolstoy

Book:In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

Source: In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

“Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up.”

Book:Tennyson's Gift: Stories from the Lynne Truss Omnibus, Book 2

Source: Tennyson's Gift: Stories from the Lynne Truss Omnibus, Book 2

“Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.”

Love Time Madness Die

Book:Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall

Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall

“He had discovered that it was easier – far easier than any one could have supposed – to make oneself mad, but like all magic it was full of obstacles and frustrations. Even if he succeeded in summoning the fairy (which did not seem very likely), he would be in no condition to talk to him. Every book he had ever read on the subject urged magicians to be on their guard when dealing with fairies. Just when he needed all his wits, he would have scarcely any wits at all.”

Book:Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell