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  1. Doris Lessing _ The Golden Notebook

    All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
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  2. Alain de Botton _ The News: A User's Manual

    If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.
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  3. Dennis Lehane _ Shutter Island

    Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need.- Why is that?- What's that, Marshal?- The full moon. You think it makes people crazy?- I know it does.- Found a wrinkle in one of the pages and used his index finger to smooth it out.- How come?- Well, you think about it-the moon affects the tide, right?- Sure.- Has some sort of magnet effect or something on water.- I'll buy that.- Human brain,- Trey said, - is over fifty percent water.- No kidding?- No kidding. You figure ol' Mr. Moon can jerk the ocean around, think what it can do to the head.
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  4. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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  5. Beth Revis _ The Body Electric

    I wish you were here," I say, shutting my eyes and remembering the way Dad looked in my hallucination.I hear his voice again, so real that I'm worried I'm about to fall into another hallucination. Maybe that's what I really want. If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?
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  6. Beth Revis _ The Body Electric

    If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?
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  7. Ann Rinaldi _ The Letter Writer

    So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more people try to make it sane?Or if it is full of sanity for them, why do they try to rip that sanity to pieces and impose their form of insanity? Can you help me understand?
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  8. Jim Butcher _ Turn Coat

    The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
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  9. Jim Butcher _ Changes

    Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
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  10. Barry Hughart _ Bridge of Birds

    Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
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  11. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it.
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  12. Mercedes Lackey _ Fortune's Fool

    Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.
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