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Quote by Georges Bataille
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the d

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. – 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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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

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Mental Illness
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What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil? – Harrison Christian

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once its set a rolling it must increase. – Charles Caleb Colton

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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. – Jean Anouilh

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One of the stupidest theories of Western life. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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