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“Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.”
Machado de Assis“He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum”
this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody.