It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
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I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
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I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.
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The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
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With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
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Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
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