Now Tantor turned his attention once more to Tarzan for one of the symptoms of madness is a revulsion of affection--objects of
sane love become the objects of insane hatred.
This graduate, after some years of confinement, took it into his head that he was
sane and in his full senses, and under this impression wrote to the Archbishop, entreating him earnestly, and in very correct language, to have him released from the misery in which he was living; for by God's mercy he had now recovered his lost reason, though his relations, in order to enjoy his property, kept him there, and, in spite of the truth, would make him out to be mad until his dying day.
The
sane aesthetics of the first Russian author I read, however, have seemed more and more an essential part of the
sane ethics of all the Russians I have read.
The old ghosts, intellectual in their inception, had been laid by a
sane and normal logic.
What a
sane man should be doing carrying about with him a woman's petticoat and silk stockings, may well be a puzzle to the most intelligent reader.
If they had something to conceal, their choice of means is certainly one of the most amazing ever made by
sane human beings.
It sounds paradoxical, but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a
sane man.
These things work, if not for perfection, at least for the evolution of a
sane and wholesome waterborne cruiser.
But one mark of a writer's greatness is that different minds can find in him different inspirations; and Professor Erlin, who hated the Prussians, gave his enthusiastic admiration to Goethe because his works, Olympian and sedate, offered the only refuge for a
sane mind against the onslaughts of the present generation.
"A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island, Jim, can't expect to appear as
sane as you or me.
It is inconceivable that any
sane man can radically disagree with one's most
sane conclusions.
--but methinks like-cures-like applies to him too; he grows so
sane again.