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“madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.”
— Jan 26, 2023 05:17PM
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“To he unable yo distinguish between dream and waking reality about right and wrong, good and evil, is a condition which cannot escape censure”.
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“Isn’t it better to be an absurd friend than a clever enemy?”
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“Deal kindly and graciously with me, and do not in anger take away or impair the skill in the science of love which thou hast given me; rather let me increase in honour in the sight of those that have beauty.”
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“the stream of beauty returns once more to its source in the beauty of the beloved.”
— Jan 27, 2023 10:47AM
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“the sight awakens in him the memory of absolute beauty”
— Jan 27, 2023 10:41AM
Luciana
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“as things are it is only beauty which has the privilege of being both the most clearly discerned and the most lovely.”
— Jan 26, 2023 05:31PM
Luciana
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A madness which befalls when she is “reminded by the sight of beauty on earth of the true beauty, […] exposing [herself] to the reproach of insanity because like a bird [she] fixes [her] gaze on the heights of neglect of things below;” this “is the best of all forms of divine possession” and it is “when [she] is touched with this madness that” beauty is aroused.
— Jan 26, 2023 05:28PM
Luciana
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“the art of discerning the future” aka “the manic art”.
— Jan 26, 2023 05:16PM
Luciana
is on page 46 of 160
“madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings.”
— Jan 26, 2023 05:15PM
