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“Without a profound complicity with natural forces such as violent death,
gushing blood, sudden catastrophes and the horrible cries of pain that
accompany them, terrifying ruptures of what had seemed to be immutable,
the fall into stinking flth of what had been elevated–without a sadistic
understanding of an incontestably thundering and torrential nature, there
could be no revolutionaries, there could only be a revolting utopian
sentimentality”
― Bataille (Georges).

“The past, in our remembering of it, is more beautiful than the present, as is the future in our imagining of it. Why? Because the present alone has its true form in human conception. It is the only image of truth, and everything true is ugly.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

“Love of God in that state that Christianity calls absolute perfection is only and can only be a love of self applied solely to ones own good, and not to that of ones fellows. Now this is precisely what is called egoism (oct 9, 1821)”
― Leopardi

“Parenthood is the opiate of the people”
― Chuck Palahniuk