I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. (Norman Mailer)

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Norman Mailer

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