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  1. Paulo Coelho _ Veronika Decides to Die

    Am I cured?" "No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness." "Is wanting to be different a serious illness?" "It is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. It's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests, he did not create a single leaf the same as another. But you think it's insane to be different, and that's why you chose to live in Villete, because everyone is different here, and so you appear to be the same as everyone else. Do you understand?" Mari nodded. "People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different, and then the organism starts to produce Vitriol, or bitterness, as this poison is more commonly known.
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  2. Paulo Coelho _ Veronika Decides to Die

    If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.
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  3. Graham Greene _ The Quiet American

    Innocence is a kind of insanity
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  4. Louis de Bernières _ Corelli's Mandolin

    Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
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  5. Ray Bradbury _ The Martian Chronicles

    You're insane!""I won't argue that point.
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  6. Douglas Adams _ So Long, and Thanks for All

    Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do."The sign read:"Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.""It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."
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  7. Douglas Adams _ Life, the Universe and

    and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
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  8. Michael Cunningham _ The Snow Queen

    There were no weapons of mass destruction. And we bombed them anyway.And, by the way he's destroyed the economy. He's squandered something in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars. It seems impossible to Tyler that that might not matter. It drives him insane.
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  9. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.
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  10. Jack London _ The Iron Heel

    Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with one's most sane conclusions.
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  11. Paul Auster _ The Book of Illusions

    I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it.
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  12. Lewis Carroll _ Alice in Wonderland

    Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?""Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again."No, I give it up," Alice replied: "What's the answer?""I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter
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