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“While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.”
— Lin Yutang, book The Importance of Living
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 3
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