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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

~Georges Bataille

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Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 16th, 1897

Died: July 9th, 1962

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