Quote by Georges Bataille
Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. -

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. – Georges Bataille

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille

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God
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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. – Georges Bataille

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Crime
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation — the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. – David Lloyd George

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Sacrifice

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. – Max Beerbohm

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Sacrifice

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Sacrifice

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. – James Allen

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Sacrifice

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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Sibling relationships — and 80 percent of Americans have at least one — outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. – Erica E. Goode, “The Secret World of Siblings,” U.S. News & Worl

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Never let the hand you hold, hold you down. – Author Unknown

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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – Raymond Chandler

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