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Georges Bataille Quotes
«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.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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contradict, destroys, equilibrium, established, honestly, incessantly, labors, lucidity, obtuse, sanity, unhealthy
«A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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at ease, Last Judgment, moment of truth, shouting, The Last Judgment
«Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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give vent, madmen, overturn, overturned, overturning, prisons, rage, vent, vents, wander
«At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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assistance, confront, core, give in, guaranteed, indefinitely, in general, leap, postpones, recoil, recoils, The Object of
«The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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ceaselessly, decisive, human origin, origin, questioning, The opposition, the Origin
«The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.»
«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.»
«Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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incomplete