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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

Approximate author period: c. 1920 AD · modern

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Approximate author period: c. 1920 AD · modern
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