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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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 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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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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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. – William Ellery Channing

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Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. – Author Unknown

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You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Marge Simpson

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Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled. – George Santayana

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Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee. – Author Unknown

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Force without forecast is to little avail. – Proverb

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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. – John Milton

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Poetry is frosted fire. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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