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 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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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. – Georges Bataille

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Look both ways before entering the insanity. – Terri Guillemets

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Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. – Carl Gustav Jung

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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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