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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long…
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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
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The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at.…
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Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
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There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged…
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Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what…
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In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and…
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I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in…
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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place…
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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this…
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When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.
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Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the…
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to…
— Italo Svevo
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Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on…
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When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most…
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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed,…
— William Butler Yeats
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Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool.…
— Tori Amos
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There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged…
— Jean Dubuffet
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A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.
— Aretaeus of Cappadocia
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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
— Henri Michaux
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