I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

Gabrielle Zevin
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  1. Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. - Ambrose Bierce

  2. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too. - William Shakespeare

  3. Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo. - Unknown

  4. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough... - Unknown

  5. Madness is something rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

More Quotes By Gabrielle Zevin
  1. Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink...

  2. You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of...

  3. I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

  4. There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

  5. A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

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