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The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.
— Herman Wouk
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When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.
— Jaroslav Hašek
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