“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) Japanese film maker
Ran (1985)
Variant: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
“Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don’t you?”
— Sarah Waters, book The Paying Guests
Source: The Paying Guests
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