“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.
“Only, as long as we‘re going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.”
— S. S. Van Dine, book The Bishop Murder Case
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Source: Bitter Blood
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