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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradi

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. – Georges Bataille

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille

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God
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Georges Bataille
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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. – Georges Bataille

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Crime
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Georges Bataille
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. – George Moore

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Contradiction

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde

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Contradiction

I happen to feel that the degree of a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. – Lisa Alther

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Contradiction

What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and groveling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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