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Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.
– Machado de Assis

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  1. Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. – Machado de Assis
  2. Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes -“ they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes. – Machado de Assis
  3. Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way -“ a relentless sun, inscrutable like life. – Machado de Assis
  4. ,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them. – Machado de Assis
  5. He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. – Machado de Assis
  6. A man’s eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence. – Machado de Assis
  7. Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises. – Machado de Assis
  8. Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them. – Machado de Assis
  9. Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  10. Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason’s night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right! – Lewis Carroll
  11. When you are in love, an ocean of joy dances like the waves in an ocean. You are that ocean. – Debasish Mridha
  12. Every island to a child is a treasure island. – PD James
  13. What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? – Wyndham Lewis
  14. There is a madness that is joy, and there is a madness that is just madness. – Marty Rubin
  15. I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ”Of couse I am – sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back. – Aleister Crowley
  16. Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore as soon as they appear. – Yogi Kanna
  17. Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up. – Lynne Truss
  18. Not knowing that I am in the ocean of love, I am swimming to reach the island of love. – Debasish Mridha
  19. If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity. – Bryant McGill
  20. Sanity is a madness put to good uses. – George Santayana
  21. Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness. – Morgan Rhodes
  22. She saw him like he was the only star in the whole damn sky. Like he was the only bridge between her sanity and madness. – Akshay Vasu
  23. If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity? – Beth Revis
  24. Worse than madness. Sanity. – William Golding
  25. Worse than madness. Sanity. – William Golding
  26. To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. – Eckhart Tolle
  27. Children aren’t everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don’t seem to suspect it. – Nella Larsen
  28. He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
  29. Though all the guns be silenced,each soldier in his home,There is no peace till Love comes,till the meek may safely roam. – CP Klapper
  30. Till the chit is in blissful state, the world does not come in one’s remembrance (one forgets the world till that time). – Dada Bhagwan
  31. Don’t eat till you’re full, eat till you’re tired. – Andrew Zimmern
  32. There is no other continent in the world where time is wasted like it is wasted in Africa. – Sunday Adelaja
  33. The African continent has so many stories to tell, it’s about time they are told, by them – not us. – Akilnathan Logeswaran
  34. They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover. – Sebastian Junger
  35. By the power of three times three!- exclaimed Gillian. -œYou could qualify as your own continent, man! – Lowvee Cole
  36. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. – Joseph Conrad
  37. As long as poverty & hunger is prevalent in any continent or country, then the world at large is never safe. – AuliqIce
  38. It’s time to begin to believe that with God on our side we can build a prosperous nation and continent. – Sunday Adelaja
  39. Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories. – Miranda Richmond Mouillot
  40. You act like the sorcerers are invading the continent for the sole joy of hunting me down and lobbing me off of tall objects. – V St Clair

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