Quotes for the Depression Forums 11-29

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

In a mad world only the mad are sane.
-- Akira Kurosawa

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
-- Paul Valery, 1895

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
-- Pablo Picasso