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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The dreamer—if you want an exact definition—is not a human being, but a creature of an intermediate sort.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

Charles Dickens
“I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

C.S. Lewis
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“He watched his brother find peace of mind through psychiatry. That’s why he won’t have anything to do with it.

I don’t follow. Isn’t his brother happy?

Utterly and always happy. And my husband says somebody’s just got to be maladjusted; that somebody’s got to be uncomfortable enough to wonder where people are, where they’re going, and why they’re going there.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

George Orwell
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
George Orwell, 1984

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