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Quote by Georges Bataille
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destr

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys ones equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established. – 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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Georges Bataille
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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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Slavery
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Georges Bataille
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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. – Georges Bataille

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Crime
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Georges Bataille
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. – R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience

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There is always a madness in love. There is however also always a reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus

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It is better to be a little mad than commonplace. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

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Insanity is the state of being unable, any longer, to be just a little bit delusional. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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