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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

Topics: Being Equivalent Evils Existence God Harmony Including Means Oneself Painful Place Position Them Tortured Unimaginable Unless Worst

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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.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: About Ease Everyone Except Hear Judgment Last Life Meaning Mind Moment Once Only Shouting Speaks Thing Truth Who

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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

~Georges Bataille

Topics: Anguish Battle Blood Engaged First First One Flows Gives Individual Neurotic Other Saint Same Similar Wounds

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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

Topics: Being Burdened Condition Crushes Deliberate Free Free Men Him Men Servility Servitude Sovereign

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 16th, 1897

Died: July 9th, 1962

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