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Quote by Georges Bataille
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion,

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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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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Duality
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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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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. – Georges Bataille

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Slavery
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You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. – Garrison Keillor

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