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Quote by Herman Melville
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ach

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville

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Nature
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. – Herman Melville

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Travel
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. – Ezra Pound

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Its a question to ask ourselves if were not mad. But who are the madmen, in Gods name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me? – Victor Serge

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Madness

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. – Michel Foucault

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The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. – Salvador Dali

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It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. – C.W. Leadbeater

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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. – P. J. ORourke

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Experience isnt interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse

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