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Quote by Georges Bataille
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but i

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to ones rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. – Georges Bataille

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. – Georges Bataille

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Morals
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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

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Mental Illness
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. – Georges Bataille

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As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm. – Terrence Howard

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It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And its getting to the point now where its like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when Im done. – Picabo Street

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The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, and this you will become. – James Allen

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I would love to spend all my time writing to you Id love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true. – Luigi Pirandello

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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. Its not enough, but it helps. – Dick Gregory

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