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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

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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Truth
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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Survival
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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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Much Madness is divinest Sense — to a discerning Eye — much Sense — the starkest Madness — – Emily Dickinson

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O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad. – William Shakespeare

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Madness

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. – Hermann Broch

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Madness

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire

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Madness

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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem. – Nathaniel Branden

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Clutter is found in so many shapes and sizes. We can find it on our kitchen tables, under our beds, in our cars, and in our heads. – Katrina Mayer, KatrinaMayer.com

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. – Jane Austen

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It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. – Sir John Harvey

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