"Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established."

-- Georges Bataille

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“I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in.”

Source : "Millennial Expert Chelsea Krost: Success, Social Media, and Unplugging". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.”
“Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.”
“I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience. Not a big audience, though. I'd rather please ten people I respect than ten million I don't. But I don't play to an audience, I do it for myself.”
“I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.”
“Donâ€™t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isnâ€™t the mirror hostile enough?”
“Meditate upon the guru as the glow of your awareness.”
“She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and the smell of unwashed hair. I was confused, but not unwilling. I would have let her do anything to me.”

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