The loss of our early, youthful innocence marks the death of sanity. Not because we were saner as young children, but because there were no expectations for us to be. A young child spouting gibberish or running around with his or her imaginary friend is not mad, not crazy. They are a child. An adult doing the same thing, of course, is a madman. Thus, it is at this juncture of maturity where the expectations of sanity are enacted that madness is born. It is not behavior alone but the restricted nature of how we are expected to behave that synthesizes this sort of internal experience of a
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