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Quote by Georges Bataille
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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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. – Georges Bataille

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Happiness
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Georges Bataille
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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. – Georges Bataille

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Passion
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Contradiction
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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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Contradiction

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. – George Bernard Shaw

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Contradiction

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

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