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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

— John Forbes Nash Jr. A Brilliant Madness A Beautiful Madness (2002)

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