Madeleine

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche