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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he…
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that…
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
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You just have to trust your own madness.
— Clive Barker
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... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not…
— D. H. Lawrence
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They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
— George Santayana
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Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes…
— Pietro Aretino
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And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
— Charles Baudelaire
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Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness I need to calculate What creates my own madness xD
— Papa Roach
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