The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
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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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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
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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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