Insufferable sting, that
sanity should ground arms on such a field!
I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my
sanity or my wakefulness.
One of the prisoners, Grigoryev, went mad as soon as he was untied, and never regained his
sanity.
I was again astonished, for he addressed himself to the question with the impartiality of the completest
sanity. He even took himself as an example when he mentioned certain things.
The wanton wind had been so busily kissing them all the morning that they were quite dry, so I was able to find room for them in my knapsack without danger to the other contents; and, with a hasty good-day to their recent possessor, I set off at full speed to find a secure nook where I could throw myself down on the grass, and let loose the absurd laughter that was dangerously bottled up within me; but even before I do that it behoves me if possible to vindicate my
sanity to the reader.
Do you not see, senor, that the gain by Don Quixote's
sanity can never equal the enjoyment his crazes give?
As this creature first came in sight, I doubted my own
sanity -- or at least the evidence of my own eyes; and many minutes passed before I succeeded in convincing myself that I was neither mad nor in a dream.
And that I conceive to be the one spirit in which a man may contemplate, with equal
sanity and reverence, the mysteries and the miseries of his life.
It gave the explanation, gave
sanity to the pranks of this atavistic brain of mine that, modern and normal, harked back to a past so remote as to be contemporaneous with the raw beginnings of mankind.
Sometimes, having exhausted our supply of wild meat and emptied our casks, we were days without food or drink; then a water-hole or a shallow pool in the bottom of an arroyo so restored our strength and
sanity that we were able to shoot some of the wild animals that sought it also.
The simplicity, the purity, the
sanity of this life he felt clearly, and he was convinced he would find in it the content, the peace, and the dignity, of the lack of which he was so miserably conscious.
And the wonder and charm of it is the
sanity in insanity which it denotes.