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“The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind.”

“Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.”

“Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant.”

“Let them respect my convictions, and I will respect theirs!”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”

“As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.”

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools.”

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

“You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.”

“He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.”

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

“Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

“In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.”

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

“That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”

“The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”