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“The world went insane before I did, I'm just adapting to the new reality.”
― Kill or be Killed, Vol. 4
― Kill or be Killed, Vol. 4
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“(1) Blurting may be considered as the reciprocal substitution of semiotic material (dubbing) for a semiotic dialogical product in a dynamic reflexion.
The human-written sentences are numbers (1) to 3; they were drawn from the contemporary journal Art-Language and are -- as far as I can tell-- completely serious efforts among literate and sane people to communicate something to each other.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The human-written sentences are numbers (1) to 3; they were drawn from the contemporary journal Art-Language and are -- as far as I can tell-- completely serious efforts among literate and sane people to communicate something to each other.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“the rent is a little higher here
but so far I've been able to
pay it
and that's a miracle too
like still maybe being sane
while thinking of guns and sidewalks
and old ladies in libraries.”
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
but so far I've been able to
pay it
and that's a miracle too
like still maybe being sane
while thinking of guns and sidewalks
and old ladies in libraries.”
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Instead of looking at things, examining them critically and asking ourselves whether they are really sane, whether they are harmful or destructive, whether they will really bring us peace of mind and a good night’s sleep, we just let ourselves go with the flow of what others are doing.”
― 2020 Vision
― 2020 Vision
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.”
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“It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results is at times a sign of sanity.”
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“Almost everything that will be said or done by someone who is suspected of being insane will seem to confirm that suspicion.”
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“Sanity is a never-ending tug of war between oneself, pulling one’s attention towards happiness, and one’s mind, pulling it towards unhappiness.”
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“Home, home with the insane, where the nutjobs and the crazies all stay. Where seldom is heard, a completely sane word, and the jackets all fit just the same.”
― Gearing Up
― Gearing Up
“Reality now and again becomes like a vengeful troll, and most notably so when it comes to passion: When reality and passion divorce, it makes passion look crazy.”
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“Some people are so barely famous that they would each lose their fame if a hundred people who know them were to simultaneously lose their lives â€� or minds.”
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“This world which we like to believe is sane and real is, in truth, absurd and fantastic.”
― Waterland
― Waterland
“When you are with any of the vast majority of sane people who can talk, silence is usually as infrequent—and definitely as brief—as the sound of a fart.”
― On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
― On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Our effectiveness and efficiency in life depend upon the degree of agreement between reality and our perception of, knowledge of, and beliefs about reality.”
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