Saint John Mill

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    “The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.”
    —Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

    “What should we know,
    For better or worse,
    Of the Long Ago,
    Were it not for Verse:”
    —Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)

    “The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)