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Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animals in

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else — an animals incomplete compared to a person… and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. – 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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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to ones rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. – Georges Bataille

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Dreams
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Georges Bataille
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In me the tiger sniffs the rose. – Siegfried Sassoon

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Duality

The world is not dialectical — it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. – Jean Baudrillard

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Duality

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. – William Blake

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The profound nature of relativity is not merely an abstraction of physics, it also explains why the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater than from 3 million to 5 million. – Eric Parslow

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Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away. – Jim Elliot

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No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays in The Art of Writing

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When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. – Jean Giraudoux

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I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social – or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman. – Mitt Romney

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