The first is that the peculiar strength of Alice's character in the books — and she is one of the few completely sane, self-assertive, and undamaged female characters in English fiction created between Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf — comes, out of the strength of a particular person.
(Indeed, when The Gone-Away World was published, he wrote a very sane and self-deprecating newspaper piece about the difficulties of entering the family business).
That Fisher ended up as sane and self-aware as she was, despite her addictions, despite her ridiculous Hollywood upbringing, is a testament to her, as she knew.
Formerly sane and self-contained, we start to long for someone annoyingly outside ourselves, and often beyond our grasp.
Although Knight's organization has been featured in a book titled Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief, The Guardian journalist Oliver Burkeman notes that in a phone conversation Knight seems "rather sane and self-deprecating".
As in The Turn of the Screw, a stifling shame, like fog, seeps through the narrative; it is what we feel when we see the shadow within our psyche, the black and mirrored version of our sane and social self.
This sane theory of self-policing soon became its own opposite.
The users mentioned that for patients to be equal negotiating partners, as assumed in the guideline, they should be intelligent, knowledgeable about health and health care organisation, mentally sane, have good self-knowledge, be assertive and act responsibly.
Claire, though sane, is passive and self-doubting.
