Quotes from breton andre ii

We all know, in fact, that the insane ... derive a great deal of comfort and consolation from their imagination, that they enjoy their madness sufficiently to endure the thought that its validity does not extend beyond themselves.

Only temptation is divine.

This imagination which knows no bounds is henceforth allowed to be exercised only in strict accordance with the laws of an arbitrary utility; it is incapable of assuming this inferior role for very long and, in the vicinity of the twentieth year, generally prefers to abandon man to his lusterless fate.

Christopher Columbus should have set out to discover America with a boatload of madmen.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.