Beth Revis Quotes
If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?
Beth Revis
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
Douglas Jerrold
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
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Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
Emil Cioran
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When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.
Euripides
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
Erica Jong
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If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?
Beth Revis
