have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something,

have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

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"Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are." This quote from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland reflects the idea that those who are considered different or eccentric often possess unique qualities and creativity. It suggests that madness might be a sign of originality and greatness.

The quote encourages embracing and even celebrating one's individuality, implying that being different does not mean...

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Alice in Wonderland

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Lewis Carroll

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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' And

and the moral of that is -Be what you would seem to be- or if you'd like it put more simply -Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very simply and neatly arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it.

Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much confused, 'I don't think--'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!

Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!

"Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."

"Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interests.

I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interests.

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much," a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Of course, there's another word for such people: thinkers.