It is not a breakdown. I've never felt more orderly in my life. It is a shattering and beautiful sensation.

— Howard Beale (Peter Finch)

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9 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:46:09.876 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Close the door, Harry.

- Howard, I'm taking you off the air. I think you're having a breakdown. Require treatment.

- This is not a psychotic episode. This is a cleansing moment of clarity.

- I'm imbued, Max. I'm imbued with some special spirit. It's not a religious feeling at all. It's a shocking eruption of great electrical energy. I feel vivid and flashing, as if suddenly I'd been plugged into some great electromagnetic field.

- I feel connected to all living things. To flowers, birds, all the animals of the world and even to some great, unseen living force. What I think the Hindus call prana.

- It is not a breakdown. I've never felt more orderly in my life. It is a shattering and beautiful sensation.

- It is the exalted flow of the space-time continuum save that it is spaceless and timeless and... of such loveliness.

- I feel on the verge of some great, ultimate truth.

- And you will not take me off the air for now, or for any other spaceless time!

- Oh, boy.

- Is he okay?

- He's just fainted.

[...]

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