Erich Segal Quotes
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
Erich Segal
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne Carson
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
Oscar Wilde
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
Eliphas Levi
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
William H. Gass
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Certainly everyone, in order to protect love, Certainly wishes to believe in something.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.
Euripides
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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Norman Borlaug
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If you’re going to throw the girl to the wolves, it’s only appropriate to outfit her with a red cloak.
Courtney Milan
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Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
Erich Segal
