“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.
“Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”
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