“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
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“In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.”
Source: Bitter Blood
“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”
The Comic
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.”
“Nor attempt the Future’s portal with the Past’s blood-rusted key.”
St. 18
The Present Crisis (1844)
Context: New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth
Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,
Nor attempt the Future’s portal with the Past’s blood-rusted key.
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.
“I am insane, with small intervals of horrible sanity.”
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/aarinzz/posts/190116454331893 (2010)