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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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. – 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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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. – William Shakespeare

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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: “Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?” – Madame Swetchine

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

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