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“The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.”
― Theory of Religion
― Theory of Religion
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
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“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Spring Snow
― Spring Snow
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
“Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.”
― Literature and Evil
― Literature and Evil
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