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“Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly
off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.”
― Luke Davies, Candy

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
― Sylvia Plath

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.”
― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals