He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Dodie Smith
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  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

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

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  2. I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

  3. I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

  4. Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

  5. I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing. And I saw that though what I felt in the church was only imagination, it was a step on the way; because imagination...

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