“To remember everything is a form of madness.”
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Brian Friel 2
Irish dramatist, author and theatre director 1929–2015Related quotes

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”
Variant: Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

Batman : The Killing Joke (1988)
Source: Batman: The Killing Joke
Context: When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened.
Forever.

“Let us remember that everything is double.”