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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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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

Category:
Mental Illness
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Georges Bataille
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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. – Georges Bataille

Category:
Truth
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Georges Bataille
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). – Walt Whitman

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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp

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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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