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> [“Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world—the interpersonal world, and the realm of human collectivities. As this external human world is almost completely and totally estranged from the inner, any personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-d-laing-2/sanity-today-appears-to-rest-very-largely-on-a-capacity-to-adapt-to/)

[R.D. Laing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-d-laing-2/)

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