John Nash on Escapism

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John Nash on Escapism

"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 of the world."

John Nash, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose true-life struggle with schizophrenia was the basis of the movie A Beautiful Mind

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