Saul BellowIf I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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To say someone has "lost his mind" is less than complimentary. So Moses Herzog, a man who suffered from schizophrenia, came up with a slightly different take on the situation. He said those who were out of their minds were okay because they no longer had to live the way people expected them to live. As he put it: "If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me."
Source: Herzog
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