Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
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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
Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
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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.
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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.
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At man's core there's a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear.
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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
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