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“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
“When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.”
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“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
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“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
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“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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